The Patrol Office.
Atop the tower terrace.
"Brother Ye!" Jiang Ning greeted him after going up.
"Brother Jiang!" Ye Qiu smiled.
Ye Qiu looked down below. "Does Brother Jiang know the whole sequence of what happened down there?"
Jiang Ning shook his head. "Not really."
Ye Qiu said, "There is a Patrol Guard down there. Yesterday, he passed the assessment, and after drinking, he got carried away and beat to death a yamen constable who had once offended him. But he didn't do anything wrong."
"Didn't do anything wrong?" Jiang Ning was slightly surprised.
"Yes, he did nothing wrong!" Ye Qiu nodded. "The Patrol Office has just been established, and we happen to need to establish our authority. Without awe-inspiring momentum, our work will be difficult to carry out in the future. This incident came at just the right time. Right or wrong doesn't matter. We can use the County Office to establish our authority."
Jiang Ning said, "Wouldn't that be somewhat inappropriate?"
Ye Qiu shook his head. "There's nothing inappropriate about it!"
After speaking, he smiled at Jiang Ning again, then continued, "It's very normal for Brother Jiang to think that way. After all, Brother Jiang was once an ordinary commoner."
"But from now on, Brother Jiang's views will have to be corrected."
"To those who sit high in the temples of power, raised up above the clouds, this world is a chessboard. Right and wrong, good and evil, are all unimportant. What matters is that their will must be carried out."
"The establishment of our Patrol Office represents the will of certain people. Our foremost duty is to carry out those people's will. Before this, it is righteousness, because righteousness represents those people's interests."
"Before righteousness, the interests of the common people can be sacrificed completely."
"The constable