Hundreds of thousands of people are waiting desperately for food; killing a few more people means nothing.
Duncan felt that he had been quite conservative in his killings already.
Bao Le'an would never know that the relief grain received by these refugees, with strong laborers eating three meals a day, was obtained only after purging the entire Cailong County.
Grain doesn't just appear out of nowhere.
Only after the first spring harvest, these pacified assimilated residents will become truly obedient citizens.
They will remember who it was that allowed them to have full meals.
"The County Magistrate is here." A voice echoed from afar.
