"So light?"
Fusu was somewhat surprised, as he had assumed that Wei Zhuang was undoubtedly dead.
"Yes. When Bingzhou was first established, in order to recruit talented scholars from all over the realm into Bingzhou, His Majesty issued a generous policy: scholars who broke the law would have their sentences reduced by one degree, unless they committed one of the Ten Heinous Crimes. The crimes Wei Zhuang committed did not fall among those ten," Zhao Gao continued to explain.
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