our family is gone

Chapter 757 Aftermath
Faced with Lance's words, the principal had nothing to say and could only stand aside and wait for the trial to come.

She could still wait calmly because she was really not involved in this matter. The crime she was charged with was management failure. Even if she was punished, she would probably just lose her position as principal.

But it is absolutely impossible to say that she was really willing to do that. She wanted to tear that guy apart alive.

The school has always been a special place for Hamlet, and she has invested a lot of energy in it and has always been cautious.

He has been praised by the lord for promoting comprehensive literacy and education, and has always been regarded as a "model" by the lord.

The school was not implicated in any of the previous corruption incidents, which is a unique honor that no other institution has.

If you say that there is a problem with education, then she has nothing to say and will admit it, but it happened to be the school cafeteria, which has little to do with the core functions of the school and is a place she usually doesn't pay much attention to. The more she thinks about it, the angrier she gets.

"Sir, since he has confessed, I suggest immediate death penalty. It would be best if he were hanged in the square to warn others of the consequences of committing a crime."

Rosa’s idea was simple. She was going to lose her position as principal anyway, so she had to vent her anger!

This sudden remark frightened the man so much that his legs went limp and he fell to his knees.

"What? You want to protest your innocence?" Lance was also speechless. He glanced at him, which scared him. He had just pleaded guilty, so what else could he say?

"It's not me who is wronged, it's the principal who is wronged..."

"Then shut up, it's not your turn to speak yet."

After seeing that he had behaved himself, Lance turned to look at the principal. "You usually seem very kind, why did you suddenly say something like that?"
"I have to criticize you for this. We are handling a case, not for personal revenge. There is a process for handling a case, and what matters is the evidence. It is not just what he says. There must be a full chain of evidence, otherwise no one will be convinced.

Killing a person and leaving it at that is a temporary relief, but similar situations will surely happen again in the future. Will we just find a scapegoat and not investigate? It doesn’t matter whether he died in vain, but if the child still doesn’t have enough to eat, it will be our responsibility.”

Of course Lance could see that the principal was unhappy. He wasn't saying this to her, but to the kids. The concept of law enforcement had to be taught from the beginning. He didn't want the kids to do whatever they wanted.

"That's what the adults taught you."

He didn't need anyone to teach him how to kill someone. He didn't want to vent his anger, but to make the matter a legal case and treat it as an ironclad case.

This guy is in charge of the cafeteria. One person cannot do this alone. There is a whole chain of interests. Lance has to catch a group of rats and clean up some garbage.

And under Lance's order, more and more people rushed here.

Rosa is the representative of the school. This matter involves the military, so a military representative must be selected to cooperate with the relevant investigation.

The police are actually the ones leading the investigation, William is the executor of the case, and the lord is responsible for coordinating the matter.

Lance has to wait until everyone is gathered before starting, which means that there must be multiple people during the interrogation.

"Go ahead and tell us everything you know."

"This money is not mine, they all have a share..."

The man did not hesitate too much, but what he said led to bigger and bigger things.

The others also felt a little pressured, but Lance just said it lightly.

"record on file."

……

Being a police officer, you get caught up in all kinds of trivial matters, so it's no surprise that you get to see the diversity of human species.

I finally got a vacation and thought I could rest for a few days, but after just one day I was called back to work overtime.

Then, under William's organization, they began to run around frequently, knocking on doors and taking people away one by one.

The people who had originally watched the invasion of the cultists and nobles soon turned around and began to inquire about the situation, but the information was kept confidential during the investigation and they were not able to obtain much information.

The situation here also makes those outsiders curious.

Isn't Hamlet too busy?

A while ago, the blood moon descended. It was finally daybreak, but then some evil cult remnants and surrounding nobles invaded again.

The cultists here had just walked around the square and immediately arrested a lot of people in the afternoon.

This environment is full of uncertainty and confusion, giving people an inexplicable sense of exhaustion.

But the fact is that except for the blood moon, other things have no effect on them.

This strange feeling really made them feel indescribable, but curiosity is human nature, and they also want to eat melons...

What’s interesting is that after these people were taken away, they were not taken to the police station but to school.

They were housed and interrogated separately.

As the Lord said, it just so happens that the school is on holiday, and there are plenty of classrooms to accommodate them, and see whether there are more of them or more students.

While William and the others were busy investigating and interrogating, Lance finally had a good meal with the orphans left behind in the school.

"So don't listen to those guys' nonsense. They use all kinds of slogans to make you eat bread while they eat fish and meat in the private room. You should learn to think for yourself and learn to protect your own rights..."

Lance left them a message, hoping that they could live a good life in the future.

On the other hand, William also went to the lord with more and more interrogation records, hoping to get the correct handling method.

Because many people here don’t know about this, they just think it’s a normal subsidy and everyone gets a share so they just take it.

Since he didn't know about this matter, naturally he couldn't have participated in it. He was just an unlucky guy who was dragged into this for no reason.

But some of these people were also found to have done other things, which involved other people. The complicated situation gave William a headache.

"We must investigate thoroughly, but we must follow the procedures thoroughly. We cannot force confessions or kill people."

Lance gave his opinion. After all, he was not a person who liked to see blood, and there was no meaning in killing.

“For those who did not actively participate, if the amount is not large, the money will be recovered and they will be fined and recorded as a demerit, but they do not need to go to labor camp.

If the person is aware of the crime and the amount involved reaches a certain amount, in addition to the basic punishment, he or she will be dismissed from public office and have to go to labor reform. The length of the sentence depends on the specific amount and whether there are other crimes that can be punished together with it.

There is also a third category, which is the leaders whose behavior is too bad. Their homes must be searched, their immediate family members must also be expelled, and they themselves must be sent directly to a sanatorium.”

Lance was not afraid at all that they would involve many people, and even hoped that the more the better.

The reason is simple. Hamlet is developing too fast and many people can't keep up. However, they have seniority and it's hard for Reims to touch them unless they commit a crime. Hamlet is so small that if they don't quit, others can't move up. Reims spent resources to help those outstanding workers and peasants learn literacy and further education, not to let them continue to work.

It's good to have a batch of them now. Lance doesn't have to support them anymore. He can put them in a more reasonable place to continue serving Hamlet.

After all, a lot of roads need to be built after restoring Hamlet's territory, and it depends on their efforts.

Don't talk politics with Lance, he doesn't understand what compromise is.

Don’t talk about unity. No one can touch you unless you do something wrong.

It was he who gave the lord his power, not the lord's power.

In fact, this matter could not be concealed for long. Soon some news spread, and then a very interesting phenomenon occurred.

The locals thought the lord did a good job, especially the parents whose children were in school, who were eager to hang those bastards in the square.

It has to be said that because several criminals had been executed in this way before, the dried and rotten corpses hung there were very ornamental, which led to the Hanging Square being similar to the "Caishikou beheading" in the minds of the people.

But it is not the case for outsiders, and it is difficult for them to understand.

In their minds, bureaucrats are assistants to the rule of the nobility. Why should they work for you? There must be some benefit. It is not surprising that they take advantage of their power to accept bribes, deduct money, and oppress others. It would be strange if they did not do these things. As long as they do not delay the master's work, that is the rule.

But in Hamlet, isn't it just snatching food from the mouths of orphans? What is that?
Even if you really want to give an explanation, you can just deal with one person directly, which will make things worse for everyone. Why arrest so many people and impose such severe punishments?

This breaks the rules. Who would dare to do things for you in the future?
Those people were not optimistic about this trouble-making lord, and some even dared to laugh at the lord's stupidity and arrogance after drinking two glasses of beer.

In fact, it is easy to guess what they are thinking. They have been here for so long but have gained nothing. Instead, they have encountered all kinds of bad luck. Blood Moon is trapped here, so all the negative emotions are blamed on Lord Lance.

Even if Lance knew, he probably wouldn't care, but it's hard to say about the others. That guy was refused a drink by the bartender and wanted to make trouble, but he was thrown out of the bar. I hope he can learn to respect others.

But as those people said, Lance did break the tacit understanding of the aristocratic system.

It can be said that Hamlet also absorbed a lot of intellectuals in the early stage. You have to know the backgrounds of those who could read in this era.

No one can deny that it was with their help that Hamlet quickly got back on the right track, especially in schools, where the proportion of this group is even higher.

These people still have illusions about the rules of the old era, and believe that there is an inexplicable tacit understanding between the lords and the bureaucrats.

The previous two times, one was a riot and the other was espionage, both caused a big storm and those involved were basically punished.

The previous two purges were caused by rebellion, which shook the rule of the lords. No one would pity him if he died.

But this time it was simply economic corruption, and many people were implicated because they took a little money.

However, they were still subjected to severe interrogation, followed by criticism and punishment, and some were even sent to labor camps.

This was psychologically unbearable for them. Although many of them were released because the amount was not large and they were not aware of the situation, they resigned immediately.

What should Lance do? I almost laughed out loud. It would be best if you guys are willing to give way.

They approved all of them directly, giving in as many people as they wanted, without any intention of retaining them.

Do you really think he doesn't know what the bureaucrats in the aristocratic system are like?
He knew very well that the reason why bureaucrats needed to find extra income was because the nobles were reluctant to pay them wages for their main jobs, so they allowed them to make money.

But the problem is that Hamlet's public office benefits are very good. Not only the salary, but also the benefits are absolutely guaranteed.

It is not difficult for one person to support a family of five. You should know that this is above the average living standard, and if you get promoted, you will get better treatment.

So if they are not satisfied with this and fail to do their job well, but instead use their power to seek privileges and make money, then it means they are not the same kind of people and they should get out of here as soon as possible.

What era is this? Do you really think you are such a treasure? And you want to blackmail him?

If the ancestor hadn't died, Lance might have considered it, after all, stability is the most important thing.

But now the ancestor is gone, and to put it bluntly, their backers are gone too.

Hamlet has nothing in abundance but a lot of people.

If you don't want to do it, there are plenty of people who will do it.

Lance has long been optimistic about a group of people who can learn and grow quickly when given opportunities from the bottom. These talents, who are full of passion and vitality like the rising sun, are the future of Hamlet.

What’s more important is that these people are loyal enough. Although I don’t know how many of them can resist temptation, at least they can believe it now.

Many people took this vacation for the rest of their lives, while some were hurriedly called to school for on-the-job training before they even finished their vacation.

The first lesson is integrity, and the teaching materials are naturally the real cases nearby.

That was a rare opportunity for the lord to teach them.

Not only those people, but also many affairs officers are here. What's even more outrageous is that some of them have been arrested.

Lance did not tell them all kinds of empty words. Instead, he directly revealed the reasons for the so-called tacit understanding between the nobles and the bureaucrats, which to some extent was an excuse for the behavior of those bureaucrats.

However, this funny tacit understanding was soon exposed by comparing the treatment between the two.

"Everything you have is provided by ordinary people. Even a large number of you were once ordinary people. You were persecuted before, so why do you want to hurt them?"

Lance spoke calmly, shook his head slowly and sighed: "I don't want to see this. This is not Hamlet. You disappoint me..."

The hurt these words caused to those people was even more painful than the interrogation, and many people burst into tears.

The other people also had complicated expressions, ambition, greed, and paralysis. If they were not careful, they would fall into the abyss.

This is not a trial, but an education.

Lance directly trained those people later, why wasn't he afraid that they would resign?

Because of the [Charming Voice], Lance can produce batches of outstanding students in a short period of time.

"Soon all of Hamlet will be recovered. Are you willing to go to those places where it's difficult and help them?"

"For Hamlet!"

"Well, Hamlet is really lucky to have you, and I am proud to have you!"

While Lance was training the students, Reynard also finished clearing out the cultists, which meant that the real war was about to begin...