Several thousand elite soldiers would have ravaged a mere county town in any other land.
Yet here, a single county magistrate held them back.
"Damn it, no wonder Daoist Master told us to focus on tearing down the city walls and not kill anyone. Brothers, switch tools!"
The soldiers clamored, tossing aside their swords, spears, bows, and crossbows for clubs, shovels, and hammers, then began digging on the spot.
They first tore up and dug through the stone road outside the city gate.
The world's rules could not possibly cover every last detail.
Killing and robbery required a game of weiqi first, but digging dirt or tearing up roads did not.
Otherwise, no one could live.
Could you imagine having to play weiqi just to dig a ditch or make some mud? That was the loophole.
Of course, it was not entirely a loophole. Why did the imperial court and local authorities exist? Were they not meant to prevent this sort of destruction? Seeing this, the county magistrate hurried back into the city, mobilized the prominent families, organized the local militia, gathered a force, and came to stop them.
Since they did not need to fight on the battlefield, and transportation was vital to making money, the prominent families were easily mobilized.
Those unwilling to show themselves could pay instead. If they neither paid nor sent men, then they could forget about using the main roads to enter the city or transport goods and people in the future.
Thus began a farce.
On Earth, it would certainly have become a bloody tragedy. Here, though, it turned into a shouting match.
Most people only knew the rules of weiqi and played a few random games when they had nothing better to do.
"Why aren't you living your peaceful lives? What are