The next morning, at the County Captain's Office.
Huang Yunxiao sipped his tea and sneered, "That old man is asserting his authority."
Huang Qingzhou also looked displeased and said, "Is he targeting you, big brother?"
The two brothers had initially thought Shen Yuan was taken by the officials for some serious crime. Who would've thought, after Huang Yunxiao investigated this morning, that it was merely for cutting down five acres of forest?
The laws of Great Yu do stipulate that destroying private forests is a crime, but that law was established at the beginning of the founding for the well-being of the people.
In today's prosperous Great Yu, as long as one doesn't deliberately set fire to mountains or recklessly destroy government forest trees, actions like Shen Yuan's—cutting down one's own forest—are generally not pursued by the government.
Su Jingshan's arrest of Shen Yuan for this crime was clearly an intentional provocation.
"I'm going to see Su Jingshan."
