The serious way Han Mei talks is truly captivating; she naturally didn't mean to say it like this, but the cost of violating the laws of the Great Tang Prison is terrifying.
The laws of the Great Tang Prison have a "retaliatory" feel; in some slightly more lenient places that emphasize so-called humanistic care, there might not even be a death penalty. In a typical city like Jiangzhou City, while the death penalty exists along with many terrifying punishments, such punishments are rarely used; the most common is beheading.
But the Great Tang Prison is different. As long as you violate any requirement of the Great Tang Prison, even if it's just an impulse that leads you to steal a chive flower from someone else's house, it's still a death penalty. And it's not as simple as beheading; even when it's a death sentence, what the Great Tang Prison uses most is waist execution.
