Fang Ke was a highly capable man.
After leaving Yang Ge's house, he had Yang Ge's words carved into a stone tablet without changing a single word, changed into his Banner Commander's flying-fish embroidered uniform, and personally escorted it outside the East City Gate to be installed.
Once the tablet was in place, he was in no hurry to leave. Instead, he stood beside it, tirelessly reading its inscription aloud over and over to the passersby who gathered to look.
Naturally, the people passing through the gate had no idea that large numbers of martial artists would soon pour into Luting County.
But that did not stop them from hearing the Road Pavilion Embroidered Uniform Guard's determination to keep the region safe in those ringing words, each one striking the ground with weight. Cheers promptly rose from the crowd.
Truth be told, Great Wei's Embroidered Uniform Guard did not have a good reputation among ordinary folk!
Half of that stemmed from the common people's natural fear of the government's instruments of violence.
The other half was because the Embroidered Uniform Guard really did contain plenty of scum who would knock the marrow from people's bones and suck them dry whenever the opportunity arose, never behaving like decent human beings.
But the Road Pavilion Embroidered Uniform Guard's reputation in Road Pavilion was, on the whole, fairly good.
That was partly because, under Yang Ge's restraint, they rarely harassed ordinary people.
It was also because, during the grain raids in the twelfth month of the previous year, the Road Pavilion Embroidered Uniform Guard had sided with the people of Road Pavilion.
Do not assume that illiterate commoners were slow-witted. Even if they had not understood certain things at the time, a few casual chats afterward in little groups could tease out the