My Wife is Unbeatable in the Whole World, Touch Me If You Dare!-Chapter 240 - 127: A World Without Thieves_3
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However, to seize the opportunity for a reduced sentence, one must first join the Anti-theft Bureau.
And the Anti-theft Bureau only had ten spots.
Who could join the Anti-theft Bureau was decided by Zhao Wu.
The crowd, who had just been cursing Zhao Wu, immediately underwent a 180-degree change in their attitude toward him.
"Brother Wu, pick me!"
"Manager Zhao, please remember how I took care of you before and choose me!"
"What Manager Zhao? It’s Director Zhao, Director Zhao pick me, I even treated you to a meal before!"
At this moment, whether it was the former stewards or Chiefs, and even a few protectors, all desperately displayed themselves, hoping to snag one of the few sought-after spots in the Anti-theft Bureau.
Zhao Wu sat in his spacious solitary cell, watching those once high and mighty Chiefs and protectors, now clinging to the bars of the cell, incessantly waving at him with faces full of fawning expressions, he couldn’t help feeling as if he was dreaming.
He never expected that he, Zhao Wu, would have such a day.
Reflecting on the first half of his life, the most correct thing he did was to pick Song out from the crowd at a glance.
It seemed like ever since then, the path of his life had suddenly broadened...
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In Chang’an, on a bustling street corner.
Huang Er was very happy today.
He had been happy these past few days.
Those ruffians from the Thief Sect, who bullied and terrorized, and acted above the law, wouldn’t allow other thieves to appear where they were.
Not long ago, he had merely stolen from an old man and two children on their turf and was caught and severely beaten by them, they even warned him that if he dared to steal there again, they would break his legs.
The place belongs to everyone, why could others steal but he couldn’t?
Beneath the feet of the Son of Heaven, was there no royal law, no legal system?
If he wasn’t a thief himself, Huang Er really wanted to report it to the authorities.
Now things were better.
Those brutes from the Thief Sect had been rounded up by the government, they couldn’t swagger around anymore.
After so many years, the court finally did something right.
Without those domineering brutes, these days, Huang Er could steal wherever he wanted, from whomever he desired and his haul was plentiful every day.
He swaggered down the street, his eyes scanning the crowd constantly.
Soon, he spotted a target.
A middle-aged woman, holding several packets of medicine, came out of a Medical Hall.
Her expression was distraught, and she hurried on her way; such people usually had their attention elsewhere and made for the easiest pickings.
Bang!
Huang Er came head-on and bumped into the woman, knocking her to the ground, and Huang Er angrily said, "Can’t you watch where you’re going!"
The woman hurriedly stood up, saying, "I’m sorry, my child is sick, I was in a rush to go home and make medicine, sorry, sorry..."
After apologizing, the woman left in a hurry.
Huang Er weighed the patched-up money pouch in his hand, about to look for the next target, when his wrist was suddenly grabbed tightly by a man who looked at him with contempt and scolded, "You even steal money from someone trying to treat the sick, are you still human? You’re a scoundrel, a piece of trash, you’re a disgrace to us thieves!"
Huang Er tried to resist, but was quickly pinned to the ground.
The woman he cheated was called back, got her money pouch returned, and with gratitude, said to the man who helped her retrieve it, "Thank you, thank you, I really wouldn’t know what to do if that money was lost!"
The man told the woman, "Auntie, when you go out, don’t tie your money pouch around your waist or put it in your front pocket, instead, sew a pocket with a button on the inside of your undergarment or overcoat, that way it’s harder to steal..."
The woman repeatedly said, "I’ll sew it when I get home, right when I get home..."
The bystanders around them applauded.
Almost everyone had experienced theft, those who are able-bodied but always tried to gain without working, causing harm to others, were despised by everyone.
Those who had recently suffered from theft were so angry that they kicked the thief a few times.
Soon, Huang Er was taken away by the people.
The same thing was happening all over Chang’an.
Some petty thieves, still relishing in the festivity of the Thief Sect’s downfall, stole without any fear, and suddenly, government officers appeared right before them.
Ministry of Justice.
The government office had let out for some time, the officials had all returned home, and inside a certain office, Li Nuo was still busy.
Today marked the opening day of the Anti-theft Bureau, and it was a day full of harvest.
Including Director Zhao, the Anti-theft Bureau was comprised of only eleven individuals, but they managed to catch seventy-eight thieves openly committing theft on the street in one day.
If it hadn’t been for the lack of manpower, that number would have easily exceeded a hundred.
The existence of the Thief Sect was a significant deterrent for those small-time individual thieves.
When the Thief Sect was still around, they occupied the easiest places in Chang’an to commit theft, which discouraged those individual thieves from showing up there, and other areas were hard to exploit.
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Now that the Thief Sect was gone, these people faced no restrictions and their unchecked actions led to a chaotic mess of thieves.
From a factual standpoint, the fall of the Thief Sect made Chang’an’s security worse, not better.
Of course, this was not what Li Nuo wanted.
The Anti-theft Bureau with only ten people was obviously far from enough.
But even with just ten people, there was plenty for Li Nuo to handle.
Each member of the Anti-theft Bureau needed to be accounted for the thieves they caught each day, how much their sentence should be reduced, and how much of their term remained—all of which had to be calculated after work.
With no other officials in the Anti-theft Bureau, Li Nuo had to do these tasks personally.
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