With a single governor-general's order from Fang Yun, the Criminal Office and the prefectural administration immediately sprang into action.
A murder case like this would normally warrant only Provincial Graduate officials, but this time, a Legalist School Metropolitan Graduate and three School of War Provincial Graduates were dispatched, along with more than a dozen Academy Students and Licentiates. This force was a match for an army of a thousand.
Early the next morning, the findings of the investigation into the massacre of Constable Sun's household in Zhengde County were compiled into an official report and placed on Fang Yun's desk.
After arriving in his study, Fang Yun picked up the report and quickly read it through, grasping the whole chain of events.
This had been an act of revenge by Spirit Beast traffickers.
The wealthiest group in the Human Race was its scholars. Anyone who was a Licentiate could not possibly starve; he could find a livelihood with his eyes closed.
An Academy Student had the opportunity to accumulate a sizable fortune and become one of the wealthy men of his township.
A Provincial Graduate, with sound management, could amass a vast fortune and become a well-known figure in his county. If he sealed his Literary Qi into a Literary Treasure before his death, that wealth would be enough for several generations of descendants to enjoy without exhausting it.
As for those who became Metropolitan Graduates or attained an even higher Literary Rank, they had more money than they could spend even without managing a family business.
Among scholars who did not hold office, few committed crimes purely for money. Among scholars who did hold office, what they did for money was not even called committing crimes.
Ordinary people without a Literary Rank, however, were different. There were plenty who