County Magistrate Tang had told the county constable and bailiffs during the investigation that they must prohibit spreading the origins of this matter.
With the portraits in hand, their investigation would be much easier. They could make up any excuse, such as thefts in a certain place, whether it was money or cattle that had been stolen. In any case, the two people in the portrait were responsible. They should capture them first, and finding the rest would be simple.
It just couldn't be related to highway robbery.
If it was highway robbery, then they would be bandits.
Yizhou had just settled down, and now bandits were robbing travelers and merchants on the roads outside Yizhou City, creating panic. Could he still remain the county magistrate?
He had just seized a parcel of land from the Ying Family and others, and there were plenty of people who wanted to pull him down or drive him out of Yizhou City.