1840Indian rebirth

After a long while, the horse whistle picked out a part of the report: "These dozen people will be severely punished. If their attitude is good enough, they will be sent to the labor camp, and they will be reformed according to the strictest standards. If their attitude is not good enough, they will be shot."

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

The so-called strictest labor reform standards are almost exhausting standards. Mashao hopes that these people can make up for all the labor they owe before they are too old to walk.

"For the remaining people, verify the severity of their crimes. If they really participated in Shikate's rebellion plan, or spread rumors during this epidemic, they 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, you may be given a warning, review, demotion, or time punishment."

Time punishment is roughly the same as jail time, but unlike labor reform, time punishment can be spent to buy freedom, and prisoners can pay money to offset their detention time.

The specific amount is mainly determined by the prisoner's income. Those whose time is valuable will be fined more, and those whose time is not valuable will be fined less - time is money.

For prisoners who are subject to time punishment, Mashao not only allows money to buy freedom, but even encourages it through some detailed designs.

Because one of his most basic principles for managing the tribe is: the fewer idlers, the better.

Locking up a prisoner, giving him food and clothing, but not making him work. Isn't this creating idlers?

Therefore, except for those on death row, for the punishment of any prisoner, Mashao will try to obtain labor as much as possible.

Severe offenders are subject to forced labor, and misdemeanor offenders are also fined.

Of course, Mashao has gradually realized the disadvantages of this method - it is easy to become addicted.

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

This almost free prostitution experience is addictive.

So much so that Ma Shao had the idea: How about arresting more people and sending them to labor camps?

It is probably not a good thing for a government to become dependent on the profits of reform-through-labor and turn punishment into a business. This is probably an important reason why later countries gradually abandoned the reform-through-labor system.

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Lu Shou was very stubborn and did not plead guilty, even in the face of his son's persuasion.

So naturally, the only thing waiting for him is death.

A few days later, Ma Shao held a public trial in the square, just like the trial of Duan Gong, Fang Lian and others. He successively announced different punishment results for dozens of criminals.

"Lushou spread rumors during the epidemic and hindered prevention and control; tried to take the opportunity to provoke rebellion and split the tribe; attempted murder in the parliament... The evidence for the above crimes is conclusive, and the prisoner refused to admit guilt and showed no remorse.

Therefore, according to the law, he will be shot and executed immediately!" Ma Sentai stood in the center of the square and announced while wearing a mask.

Since the epidemic has not yet completely ended, the density of the audience has been limited, so there are not many people watching at the scene. In the past public trials, almost everyone in the city would come to watch, but this time only a few hundred people were present.

Despite this, as soon as Ma Shao finished speaking, there was still noisy condemnation from the crowd: "He actually hindered the prevention and control of the epidemic. This bastard should be fed to the wolves!"

"If it weren't for these people, fewer people would have died!"

"Split the tribe and you will die unjustly!"

"Shameful traitor!"

"Deerhand, you traitor!"

People cursed, and some even picked up stones and clods of soil, even took off their shoes, and threw them at Lushou and others.

Listening to the crowd's curses, especially the word "traitor" one after another, Lushou's breathing became rapid and his face turned red as if it was bleeding. He wanted to argue more, but he had no chance.

In a public trial, for a prisoner like him, the whistleblower would only give him a symbolic opportunity to plead his case, and the rest of the process would be tied up and gagged.

"Traitor!" The curses continued.

Lu Shou could only listen to the curses of the tribesmen, unable to speak, and blood kept pouring to his forehead.

Am I really a traitor? He thought in fear.

Impossible, I did nothing wrong, I am not a traitor! He quickly put an end to his self-doubt.

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

Even more, he continued to strengthen his own understanding, and finally moved directly towards the self-knowledge similar to that of a martyr - my tribe is ignorant and they cannot understand me.

He thought that what he was bearing now was not shame, but tragedy, and what he was about to experience was not punishment, but sacrifice.

With this self-hypnosis mentality, Lu Shou successfully forgot the fear of death and became the only prisoner without incontinence.

A total of six people were sentenced to death, including Deershou, Vulture, and Black Horn. The execution method was still to shoot from behind in random order. Death, shame and the unknown brought unprecedented fear to several death row prisoners, and they all became incontinent on the spot.

Ended his life in such a disgraceful way.

Apart from them, the dozens of prisoners present were sentenced to reform through labor. As for those who appeared in the review report but did not appear in the square, most of them were sentenced to lighter punishments.

Others were not punished or only received verbal warnings.

For example, Shi Ya and Ma Shao thought about it over and over, but finally did not mention this matter to him.

Ma Shao could probably guess the real situation of Stone Crow.

Stone Crow's beliefs and views are relatively fragmented. He believes in both traditional shamanism and spiritual teachings. He not only supports the changes in the tribe, but also calls himself brothers with the conservative old shamans. He is both superstitious and

A few words about science...

It wouldn't be an outrageous thing for such a person to show up at Lushou and the old shaman's gathering. Find an acquaintance to connect with him, and in the name of exchanging master dancing skills, you can probably call him over.

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

Just like what Ma Shao saw in his previous life, some people not only admire the red road, but are also very courteous to monks and Taoists. One minute they were discussing ancient apes descending from trees, and the next minute they began to think about God's creation of man...

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

This is also the reason why Ma Shao did not continue to expand the censorship.

The three views of the vast majority of tribesmen are not a self-consistent system. It can even be said to be a bunch of bugs, filled with a large number of irrelevant or even contradictory views. If they are reviewed infinitely and strictly, everyone will only be labeled as a fool.

criminal.

Not only the tribesmen, but also Mashao's own outlook on life has bugs. Although he doesn't know where the bugs are, he knows there must be them.

Therefore, Mashao finally understood that his goal should only be to eliminate the biggest bugs and the most radical opponents.

He also successfully completed his goal.

The successful prevention and control of the epidemic has brought him ample legitimacy. His judgment is as unquestionable as the sun, and the insects that have hindered him have disappeared.

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

As this authority continues to rise, when the epidemic in Sleeping Bear City is completely over, people will increasingly talk about the "Holy Light" instead of the "Great Spirit".

The so-called Holy Light is, of course, a metaphorical name for a horse whistle. Just like in many periods and countries, the word sun is also used as a synonym for a leader.

According to the teachings of the Spiritual Enlightenment Sect, this makes perfect sense. After all, as the supreme god who created the singularity, the Great Spirit is an existence transcending the universe. The sun, moon and stars are no different to him than dust, and he has no human influence at all.

Emotions don't care about mortal prayers at all.

Praising such a transcendent existence has no meaning and is unlikely to elicit any response.

The chief has a real human identity, which is naturally different.

The Apaches increasingly spoke of "Holy Light," while Americans increasingly spoke of "Destiny."

As the situation between the United States and Mexico heats up, "Manifest Destiny" appears all over the United States and has become the most popular word in the hearts of the people. It can be seen in almost every newspaper.

Americans firmly believe that America is their destiny, and now is the time for God to give them the land.