He knew it was dangerous, but he went anyway.

This time he was caught and revealed.

"I just saw that your basement was not closed, so I kindly helped you close it." When Ma Lishan was pressed to the ground, he was still trying his best to quibble.

They all knew who he was, and Ma Laifu had greeted him earlier, and of course everyone didn't listen to his quibbles.

"Tie people up and send someone to report to the officer."

It was Ma Laifu who went out to report to the official, and he quickly came back and said, "The government is not free for the time being, let us help take care of it for one night, and we will talk about it tomorrow morning." ”

"Stealing is not a trivial matter, besides, everyone has already been caught, and an officer and soldier from the government can bring it over, or let us send it, why wait until tomorrow morning?"

Naturally, it was a chance to escape, and Ma Laifu said, "You don't care, pull him into my room, and I can watch it myself, and someone from the government will come tomorrow morning." ”

This night, Ma Laifu pretended not to be sleepy and began to chat with Ma Lishan, "You will definitely not be able to escape if you are caught this time, with the personality of the county master, you will either chop your hands or your feet."

I still remember that at the beginning of the year, you quarreled with Yu Youcai from the seventh group, and the county lord slapped you and wanted to chop off Yu Youcai's hand.

But if the county lord wants to cut you, no one will intercede for you, right?

The people of your group wish you had been cut off, and then your food would be theirs. ”

Ma Laifu lay on the kang and changed his posture, "Oh, think about you in the future, one less hand or one less foot, it's better to have less hands, if you have less feet, you can only jump on the road." ”

The more he listened to Ma Lishan, the more terrifying he felt.

In the middle of the night, he struggled to break the hemp rope, and ran out while Ma Laifu was asleep.

He didn't know that as soon as he left, Ma Laifu, who was originally snoring, immediately sat up, dressed and went to the yamen.

He actually ran one more trip, Yang Zheng and others had already squatted outside his house, followed Ma Lishan all the way away, watched him go up the mountain, and then took turns to go back to the county government to rest.

"Now it's up to them to be guts." Meng Changqing said, "Just take advantage of this effort to probe their bottom." ”

"My lord, if they really go down the mountain to rob ......"

"Then they just don't come back." Meng Changqing said: "We are in the dark, they are in the light, and they have absolutely no chance to go back when they go down the mountain." ”

Yang Zheng frowned and pondered, "There is a precedent ahead, even if Ma Lishan is agitated, it is very likely that they will not go down the mountain." ”

"That's for the best." Meng Changqing said, "In this way, we can know that the mountain bandits are not good at fighting, and we can also use other plans." ”

"Yes." Yang Zheng left Meng Changqing's study and stood in the courtyard for a while, until Bafang patted him on the back, "Brother Yang!" Didn't the young master tell you to go back and rest? Why are you standing here? ”

"Bafang, come and ask you something." Yang Zheng grabbed the other party's neck and pulled the person to the room where the main book was used, now he is the main bookkeeper, and only he and Meng Changqing will come to this room.

"What's wrong?" Octagon is curious.

"How well do you know your young master?"

"Of course, I grew up with the young master."

"Is Lord Meng ......" Yang Zheng felt that the words were inappropriate in the middle of speaking, so he asked differently, "Why is Lord Meng so jealous and hateful?" ”

"Isn't that how it should be?"

"Yes, jealousy and hatred should be, but Lord Meng doesn't seem to want to let the people on the mountain live, I have always been tolerant of crime and punishment, except for treason and malicious killing of many people, they will be sentenced to death, and the others will be punished with hard labor at most, how can Lord Meng always want to kill the people he catches."

Hagoon: "I never thought about it. But what do you have to say, I think the young master's idea is right, the murderer resisted his life, just said that the last time, those mountain bandits broke over with murder weapons, and they were supposed to take our lives, but the force was not as good as ours, so we didn't succeed, why should we let those people live?

When they came with knives, they didn't necessarily want to leave us a way out.

I fully understand what the young master is doing, and if it were me, I would want to kill them too. ”

Yang Zheng was a little farther away from the eight directions, "It is said that you are from the capital, and you should understand the benevolent government of the imperial court, but why do you all think like this?"

Could it be that the imperial court only flaunts benevolent government outside the capital? ”

Bafang thought about it carefully, "Probably not, I remember that the palace never executes the attendants who make mistakes, at most they are punished with hard labor." ”

"Although the imperial court flaunts benevolent government, the young master has always told me that blindly emphasizing benevolent government and repeatedly tolerating criminals is the most unmerciful thing."

Yang Zheng heard such a statement for the first time today.

"The least merciful?"

"Yes, if you think about it, those who were robbed and killed lost their lives, but the robbers only need to be locked up for more than ten years, or even a few years, to regain their freedom.

To whom is such punishment merciful?

My young master said that this is being generous for the person who lost his life, and it should not be generous. ”

"You have a point in saying that." Yang Zheng sighed, "Then did Lord Meng say why the imperial court would implement benevolent government?" ”

"The young master didn't say it."

"It's because there are few people, you should see it more obviously in Liangzhou, General Wei has thought of a lot of ways to deal with the lack of population." Yang Zheng said, "If there are few people, it is easy to kill." ”

"The young master said that there are few people because the world is chaotic." Bafang remembered Meng Changqing's words in the past, "The chaos in the world is because the law is not strict." ”

"In this way, is the court reversing the order?"

Bafang hurriedly said: "I didn't say this, and my young master didn't say it either, Brother Yang is just some jokes, don't take it seriously." ”

"Don't worry, I will follow Lord Meng wholeheartedly, and I will never joke with Lord Meng's future, these words will come out of your mouth and into my ears, and no third person will know."

Yang Zheng and Zhang Yuan took turns to take people to wait at the bottom of the mountain, and waited for two days in a row, but they didn't see Ma Lishan come down, and they didn't see anyone on the mountain come down.

"It seems that they dare not move." Yang Zheng asked, "Master Meng, what are we going to do next?" ”

"Zhao'an."

Yang Zheng looked at Meng Changqing and felt that these two words were so unreal when they came out of her mouth.

"Are you sure?" Yang Zheng looked at the official document handed over by Bafang, and then thought about the words he said to Bafang in the room two days ago, how could this Master Meng always do things he didn't expect.

"A stamped document can't be a joke." Meng Changqing said: "Trouble Captain Zhang, post this official document at the foot of the two dangerous mountains." ”

Yang Zheng took a closer look at the contents of the paper.

In short, as long as the people on the mountain tied up Ma Lishan and sent them down the mountain, the government would divide the land for them.

This is not a serious paperwork.

This Ma Lishan was remembered by Master Meng, don't think about a good result.