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Chapter 103: Killing Dou Pengzu (Long Chapter, Please Submit)
The Han people's beheadings and public executions were all carried out in the East Market.

The East Market is located south of the north city wall, east of Hengmen Street, and north of the Right Inner Historian Temple. It is the most prosperous of all the markets in Chang'an. The beheading ceremony of criminals was held in front of the flag pavilion in the East Market.

The East and West Markets of the Nine Markets of Chang'an are located on the east and west sides of Hengmen Street, with a market every four miles. There are six markets and twenty-four li in the west of the road, and three markets and twelve li in the east of the road. The West Market on the west side of the road is mostly composed of handicraft workshops such as pottery figurines, coin molds, and cart shafts. The East Market on the east side of the road has hundreds of tunnels and numerous shops, gathering merchants from Guandong, Jingchu, Wuyue and other places.

At dawn (6:00-6:45), when the sky was still light, Guo Jie bathed and changed his clothes, then put on a pheasant crown, a white robe, a two-foot sword and a ring-handled knife hanging from his waist, and wore red trousers and hooked shoes, and solemnly headed towards Hengmen Street.

"Brother, that person is Du Juecao, who once lied and tried to convict you?"

Wei Guang, wearing a military cap, a silk robe, and holding a golden guard, followed Guo Jie. The two did not ride horses or carriages, but walked to the East Market on the east side of Hengmen Street and saw Du Juecao being escorted by the prison clerk.

Du Juecao, a county official of the Right Internal History, was subjected to the punishment of kun (tongue), which means shaving the head. His hair was shaved off and he was walking in front wearing a tattered jacket and trousers. When he heard the familiar voice, he turned around to look at Guo Jie and stopped.

"boom!"

The wooden club in the hand of the prison clerk hit Du Juecao's back hard, making a dull sound. The thief catchers and prison clerks usually had iron bars and ropes hanging around their waists. Since the day when they beat the widows and widowers blocking the city gate, many of them had one or more wooden clubs around their waists.

"Ok!"

Du Juecao groaned, his face full of resentment at being harassed by a minor official. When he thought that he would be beheaded and thrown into the market if he went to the East Market, the arrogance on his face disappeared and he looked sad.

Guo Jie walked into the gate of the East Market and went along the road until he came to the flag pavilion of the East Market. The surrounding area was already crowded with people, and there was noisy and noisy.

The top of the double-roofed market tower was also crowded with nobles and dukes. Looking at another prisoner waiting to be beheaded in front of the flag pavilion, it felt like a dream. They could not believe that the Dou family, a relative of the emperor's wife, would also be beheaded and thrown into the market one day.

Dou Pengzu was even more humiliated than Du Juecao. As a powerful relative of the emperor, he was subjected to both the tonsure and the shackles.

The punishment of shaving Dou Pengzu's head was to shave off all his hair.

The punishment of tongs was to put an iron ring around Dou Pengzu's neck, which was humiliating. He no longer had the dignity of the Dou family, a relative of the emperor's wife, and was more like a lowly runaway slave.

The faces of the dukes and ministers turned pale, and they were filled with indignation when they saw Dou Pengzu being humiliated.

Dou Pengzu was a marquis after all.

Kings and princes have their own way of dying.

Don't take it lightly!

It would have been fine if Zhao Yu had just captured Dou Pengzu, Marquis of Nanpi, but he actually dared to insult a marquis like this and subjected him to the punishment of shaving his head and tongs.

This aroused the dissatisfaction of the dukes, ministers and marquises.

"Zhao Yu is truly a cruel official, and Dou Pengzu is a marquis! How dare you humiliate him like this?"

"Don't you know that princes have their own way of dying?"

"Zhao Yu is nothing but a mad, incompetent dog. Empress Dowager Dou, Empress Dowager Dou, and Marquis Weiqi are still alive. Isn't he afraid of retaliation from his in-laws, the Dou family?"

Guo Jie looked up at the nobles and dukes in the market tower and sneered inwardly. He wondered how many of these nobles and dukes who were only interested in pleasure could avoid the zhoujin.

Two major policies implemented by Emperor Wu of Han.

The Suan Min policy required all wealthy businessmen in the world to report their property. If anyone evaded taxes by concealing their property, instead of simply paying the tax, all their land, houses, and money would be confiscated and they would also be imprisoned in Chang'an Prison.

There was no overseas transfer of property in the Western Han Dynasty. Rich businessmen made a lot of dirty money and then took their families overseas to live a carefree life.

Rich businessmen in the Western Han Dynasty who concealed their wealth would end up having all their property confiscated and being imprisoned in Chang'an Prison.

Zhujin was a sharp weapon against the powerful and influential people such as dukes, marquises, and nobles. Privileged people like Prince Zhou and Catfish suffered the same fate as wealthy businessmen in the face of Zhujin. More than one hundred marquises had their titles stripped away.

Anyone who dared to drive a car into the palace gate would be dispatched by cruel officials that night. They would first deprive the title, which represented privilege, and then confiscate all the property. The entire family would be thrown into prison without a single survivor.

"Someone is coming."

Zhao Yu shouted, "Du Jue Cao is a fraud. The Supreme Court has sentenced Yuan Shu to beheading and public execution. The execution has begun."

Few people can face death with peace of mind.

"don't want."

Before the execution, Du Juecao could barely hold his back straight, but when he heard the words "behead and throw into the public square", the fear in his heart burst out completely, and his body went limp and collapsed on the rammed earth ground.

He cried out with tears streaming down his face, "I have money at home. Can I take out five hundred baskets or one thousand baskets of three-zhu coins to buy a title to atone my sin? I only beg you to spare my life. I beg the Chang'an magistrate to spare my life."

The only one who responded to Du Juecao was Zhao Yu with a cold face.

You offended a cruel official and still want to atone for your sins?
late!

Zhao Yu glared at the two jailers standing beside him and shouted, "Boys, tie up the prisoner's body and prepare for his execution by beheading and throwing him into the streets."

Chang'an Ling Zhao Yu was a moody man.

Yesterday, he was summoned by Emperor Liu Che to the Linyuan where he was under construction.

The two prison clerks were startled and secretly annoyed that Du Juecao was struggling wildly, which caused Zhao Yu to scold him. They quickly tied Du Juecao to the iron rod.

The ferrule is a knife similar to a guillotine, with the material being the chopping board underneath. During execution, the prisoner is tied to the ferrule and beheaded.

Du Juecao was not sentenced to beheading, but was still tied to a iron rod by the prison clerk to prevent him from struggling again.

Zhao Yu looked at Guo Jie, who was fully prepared. Amid the onlookers' astonishment, he unexpectedly smiled. "Let's execute them! Don't delay any longer. There's another person to be executed. Behead these two men quickly and return to the Chang'an official temple to continue handling official business."

The nobles and dukes on the city tower were also surprised, and looked at Guo Jie with an expression full of disbelief.

The cruel official Zhao Yu would actually smile at people.

Could it be that Guo Jie married Zhao Yu's daughter?

No, I haven't heard that Zhao Yu has a daughter. He only has a son who is not yet an adult.

"No. No"

Du Juecao cried out in despair, watching Guo Jie walk over step by step to the side of Fuzhi.

"puff!"

Guo Jie swung the ring-handled knife in his hand, and with a clean and neat move, he chopped off Du Juecao's head with his own hands. A large amount of blood spurted out, and the head rolled out, rolling all the way to Dou Pengzu's feet.

Zhao.Zhao Yu
Really dare to kill people!
Dou Pengzu's arrogant face finally changed color, and a trace of fear appeared on his face. He looked at the head at his feet, his legs trembling, and he almost knelt on the ground on the spot.

"Zhao Yu!"

A red fur carriage appeared on the main road of the East Market. A fur is a felt carpet made of fur, and a red fur is a red felt carpet. A loud shout came from inside the carriage.

When the officials and people near the flag pavilion saw the red fur carriage, they were frightened and hurriedly made way, and a wide corridor appeared in the middle of the crowd.

Changan has quite a few vehicles.

There were only two red fur chariots.

One was the carriage of the eldest princess, Princess Guantao, and the other was the carriage of the eldest princess, Princess Pingyang.

The eldest princess's red fur carriage, and the oil painting carriages of the great noble lady, noble lady, princess, princess consort and feudal lord.

Princess Guantao knelt in the red fur carriage, her eyebrows raised, and her beautiful eyes stared coldly at Zhao Yu: "I was watching right here, how dare you kill Dou Pengzu!"

Because of the last wrestling match.

Princess Guantao was very annoyed with Dou Pengzu. No matter how much she disliked him, he was still a member of the Dou family, the in-laws of the Empress Dowager Dou, and the nephew of Empress Dowager Dou.

She could only go to Emperor Liu Che, but the emperor evaded the question by saying that he could not interfere with the Han laws.

Helpless, Princess Guantao could only go to the East Market in person and stop her carriage next to Dou Pengzu to save his life.

"Ha ha!"

Dou Pengzu saw Princess Guantao's carriage parked nearby and breathed a sigh of relief. He couldn't help but burst into laughter and said, "I don't believe it. The Empress Dowager Dou is right here. You dare to chop off my head."

His fat and big-eared face once again showed domineering and arrogant features.

Dou Pengzu looked at Zhao Yu with eyes full of contempt, as if he was looking at a mad dog.

In the face of power.

Zhao Yu is not even as good as a dog.

The dukes and marquises stood on the top of the city tower and breathed a sigh of relief. Since Emperor Liu Che ascended the throne, no dukes or marquises had ever been killed, and this loophole must not be opened.

As long as Princess Guantao was present, no one dared to kill Dou Pengzu.

Zhao Yu's face was gloomy. He stared at Princess Guantao who suddenly broke in and was very angry.

Princess Guantao did not come alone. She was accompanied by more than ten palace guards from Changxin Palace in her red fur carriage. They wore flat turbans, red armor, and held spears in their hands. They stared at Zhao Yu solemnly and moved forward step by step.

In Guo Jie's sight, it was as if a group of terracotta warriors from the Han Dynasty tombs came alive, laying siege to Zhao Yu in front of them.

Quite interesting.

Guo Jie found it interesting and at the same time delighted. Princess Guantao and everyone else's attention was on Zhao Yu. No one looked at him, and no one cared about him who was closer to Dou Pengzu.

Fortunately, he was wearing three layers of vest.

The first layer is Sang Hongyang, the second layer is Zhao Yu, and the third layer is Zhang Tang.

To outsiders, Guo Jie was a subordinate of a subordinate of a subordinate of Sang Hongyang's subordinate.

What happened today was that the emperor wanted to kill Dou Pengzu and cut off the wings of the Dou family, his foreign relatives, and hinted to Sang Hongyang to tell Zhao Yu to kill Dou Pengzu.

Another layer of vest.

The subordinate of the subordinate of the subordinate of the subordinate of Emperor Liu Che was Guo Jie.

In addition, Guo Jie was just a small pavilion chief, a petty official who was only paid for food in the eyes of Princess Guantao and other nobles, an executioner, a tool, and a knife.

He was just following the orders of Zhao Yu and Zhang Tang to let Guo Jie use this knife to carry out the execution, and it had to fall as an instrument of torture.

No duke or nobleman cared about a torture device.

Guo Jie has always followed the footsteps of the cruel official Zhang Tang. He knows that the future trend will be cruel officials, and he is also putting on a disguise to avoid being targeted by the powerful.

Make a fortune in silence.

It really worked.

The official position that Guo Jie wanted most was always one that carried great power, that is, a low position with great power.

His low rank would not attract the attention of the powerful. Sang Hongyang, Zhao Yu and Zhang Tang used layers of disguises to help Guo Jie attract the attention of the powerful.

Guo Jie also had great real power and could get what he wanted.

Therefore, the official position he really wanted to be promoted to was the head of the county residence.

"Execution!"

Zhao Yu shouted, "Behead Dou Pengzu immediately. If you hesitate, I will not show mercy."

Under the watchful eyes of Princess Guantao and the nobles, Guo Jie, under duress, was forced to drop the guillotine.

What no one saw was.

A hint of excitement appeared on Guo Jie's face, and he was just waiting for Zhao Yu to say to execute him. The ring-handled knife in his hand fell, and with a "puff", he directly chopped off Dou Pengzu's head.

Only Dou Pengzu noticed the excitement on Guo Jie's face.

Before he died, there was only one thought in his mind: Why didn't I notice Guo Jie?

How could we ignore Guo Jie!
Dou Pengzu died with his eyes open, feeling unwilling to give up and wanting to chop off Guo Jie's head, but he could only die with regret.

He also had an incredible idea in his mind.

He had wanted to punish Guo Jie for a long time, so how could he subconsciously ignore Guo Jie?

Everyone's attention was attracted by Zhao Yu.

"Zhao Yu!"

Princess Guantao's pretty face was filled with rage, her chest heaving with anger. Even though she was wearing a loose Yue boudoir brocade skirt, she could still see the surging waves. She gritted her teeth and said, "I have my eyes on you. If you ever violate the laws of the Han Dynasty, I will be the first to kill you!"

She was very angry that she failed to stop Zhao Yu, so she could only take Dou Pengzu's body back.

Dou Pengzu was dead, and the dukes and nobles left the East Market in their carriages, their minds in turmoil. Most of them blamed Sang Hongyang for the first blow that was struck at the dukes and nobles.

Part of the blame is on Zhao Yu.

A very small number of people blamed Zhang Tang.

No one blamed Guo Jie for wearing three layers of disguise.

Guo Jie had become a torture device.

In fact, the real cause of Dou Pengzu's death was that he was tricked to death by him and Zhang Qian.

"Dou Pengzu is dead?"

Sang Hongyang had been kneeling in the Lingshe of the Chang'an official temple, rising from time to time to look toward the door of the inner chamber. When he saw the figures of Zhao Yu, Zhang Tang, and Guo Jie, he hurried out of the guest room and asked, "I heard that Princess Guantao went to the East Market. Did you try to stop her from beheading Dou Pengzu?"

He was anxious.

Destroying the Dou family, the emperor Liu Che's top priority.

Emperor Liu Che did not want to become like the former Emperor Shao Gong and the latter Emperor Shao Hong, who were just puppets controlled by their foreign relatives and even died at their hands.

Between Emperor Gaozu of Han Liu Bang, Emperor Hui of Han Liu Ying, Emperor Wen of Han Liu Heng, and Emperor Jing of Han Liu Qi, and between Emperor Hui and Emperor Wen, there were also the former Emperor Shao Liu Gong and the later Emperor Shao Liu Hong, all of whom were puppets controlled by the external relatives Lu family, and some were even poisoned to death.

His reign was short.

"killed."

Zhao Yu's agitated emotions hadn't subsided even after he returned to his residence. His hands trembled slightly. "Princess Guantao came to stop us, but I still killed Dou Pengzu. It's just..."

He calmed down a bit, looked at Guo Jie beside him, and sighed, "Guo Jie was the only one in the entire Chang'an government who obeyed my orders and killed Dou Pengzu in front of Princess Guantao, acting as a torture instrument. His official position is too low, and he needs to be promoted to avoid retaliation."

Guo Jie smiled secretly, I have three layers of vests, which are equivalent to three layers of bulletproof vests. No matter how many bullets there are, they can block them. No one will retaliate against me with a torture device.

However, getting promoted is a good thing.

Guo Jie deliberately pretended to look heavy, as if he was worried about revenge from his in-laws, the Dou family.

"I have had this intention for a long time."

After killing Dou Pengzu, Sang Hongyang was in high spirits. He said with a smile, "The post of pavilion chief is too low a position. I have already written an official document to promote Guo Jie to the position of county head."

(End of this chapter)