Han official!

Chapter 154 Daily Workbook

"Chonghuangrou, right, Mangtong, left, Sujia, follow behind me."

At the door of the cowshed where a lot of straw was piled up, Guo Jie gripped his ring-handled sword tightly, stared at Yao Xiangzuo who was hiding behind the five armored men, and whispered orders.

"This official is Guo Jie, the chief accountant of the Right Secretary of the Interior."

Around the ointment workshop, a group of villagers wearing ordinary hats appeared and hid at the entrance of the alley, watching the door of the cow prison. Guo Jie shouted loudly, revealing his identity as the leader of the inspection team.

The thief killed the envoy of the Right Secretary of the Interior, which was a capital crime.

When Yao Xiangzuo heard Guo Jie calling him the chief accountant, his face turned ugly, and the five armored men in front of him became quite a commotion.

"Don't listen to his nonsense."

Yao Xiangzuo drew his two-foot sword and said in a deep voice, "These people are bandits. They broke in and robbed the Pingshan Township government of money and silk. Capture them and I'll reward you with an oxcart full of corn. Attack!"

Guo Jie made his identity clear, and did not expect that just one word would stop the five armored men.

It was just to force Yao Xiangzuo not to kill people in public.

Catching a group of bandits and killing them are two different things.

The armored five men had the advantage of having red ribbons on their armor, and they were soldiers who trained frequently, so even Guo Jie was afraid of them.

Yao Xiangzuo originally wanted to kill the bandits, but Guo Jie made clear the identity of the accountant. No matter whether the five armored men believed it or not, they could not kill the accountant in public.

There is no way to give an explanation to Zhao Yu and Zhang Tang.

Can only catch.

The armored soldiers became restricted, and the advantage of the military formation combat was instantly reduced a lot.

In addition, Guo Jie found an excuse to kill someone.

No matter how many officials and soldiers were killed.

Guo Jie was acting in self-defense.

The five armored men did not dare to kill anyone.

Guo Jie and others can kill people.

This one sentence helped Guo Jie reduce many of his disadvantages.

"kill!"

Guo Jie strode forward and chopped the spear of an armored soldier with the ring-handled knife in his hand. He was strong enough to fight a tiger and had great strength. He cut the spear in half with one blow and chopped it on the red belt armor.

"Bang--"

The red sash armor sent up sparks, knocking the ring-handled sword out of Guo Jie's hand. This was the advantage of wearing armor. If they had worn linen jackets and trousers instead, the five men would have been hacked to death by Guo Jie on the spot.

"puff!"

Without waiting for the five armored men to draw their ring-handled swords, Guo Jie slashed at their necks and chopped off their heads.

Blood splattered everywhere, spraying on Guo Jie's face, hair, and white clothes.

Guo Jie wiped the blood off his face, stared at Yao Xiangzuo, and continued to rush forward with Chong Huangrou and others.

"you"

Yao Xiangzuo was stunned. He looked at Guo Jie in astonishment as he chopped off the heads of five people with a single knife, his face full of disbelief.

The laws of the Han Dynasty were strict.

Murder is a felony.

What's more, Guo Jie killed a Wu man.

Kill a soldier in public.

crazy?

Could it be that Guo Jie was not afraid of being surrounded and suppressed by the Northern Army?

The intensity of the court's pursuit of someone who killed an official was completely different from the intensity of the pursuit of someone who killed a commoner.

Guo Jie killed five people from the official temple. The court mobilized the Northern Army stationed in Chang'an to capture him and bring him to justice. He was sent to the East Market to be beheaded and thrown into the open air.

"The distance is almost there."

With the help of Chong Huangrou, Guo Jie's ability to charge into the formation was greatly enhanced, and he quickly rushed to the middle of the five armored men.

Guo Jie swung out his ring-handled sword to block a spear head that was stabbing at him. Zaoyi squatted slightly so that Su Jia, who had been hiding behind him, could use the force.

"only!"

Su Jia took a deep breath, took a few steps back, and suddenly ran forward. Taking advantage of Guo Jie's body in black clothes, he leaped hard, jumped over the five armored men, and appeared next to Yao Xiangzuo.

Yao Xiangzuo was so stunned that he didn't even react.

"boom!"

The iron halberd in Su Jia's hand hit Yao Xiangzuo's back, almost knocking him out on the spot. He lost the ability to resist and allowed someone to hold his cloth robe by the collar.

"Everyone stop it!"

Su Jia shouted loudly, and pressed the sharp edge of the iron halberd against Yao Xiangzuo's neck: "If anyone attacks again, I will cut his neck. Everyone retreat."

The five armored men were stunned. They didn't expect Yao Xiangzuo to be captured so easily.

Rat-proof device.

The five armored men could only hold their spears and retreat step by step to make way.

Guo Jie walked over, grabbed Yao Xiangzuo by the collar, and walked into a courtyard near the wall, which was one hundred and twenty steps square and had no alterations. He asked, "Where on earth are you hiding Su Jia's wife, Yao Ji?"

Yao Xiangzuo's black cap and clothes were stained with the blood of the five armored men, and he was already frightened and panicked.

He reached out his hand to hold onto the tallow tree in the yard, his limp legs barely holding back from collapsing. "Officers, please be aware that it was my uncle who was responsible for Yao Ji's imprisonment. He threw her into the small room next to the cow pen. There was some rift between my uncle and me. Yao Youzhi and I may seem like brothers from the same mother, but we've actually been fighting openly and secretly."

Guo Jie looked at Su Jia who was standing aside. He had been to Pingshan Township Government many times and knew the inside story of the Yao family in Beidao.

Su Jia nodded and said, "The Yao family of Beidao once rescued a wealthy merchant from Shu County who was being banditized. His daughter, Cai Huijun, was incredibly beautiful. The merchant brought his daughter to Chang'an, intending to offer her to Dou Ying as a means of advancement. The three Yao Youzhi brothers, enticed by her beauty, killed the merchant and forcibly took his daughter. Later, the three Yao Youzhi brothers almost became enemies over Cai Huijun's capture."

He had met Cai Huijun before and said solemnly, "Cai Huijun lives in an elegant garden. I accompanied Yao Ji there to deliver food. I saw Cai Huijun's true appearance and she was in no way inferior to Zhuo Wenjun."

Guo Jie was moved.

The most famous beauty in the Western Han Dynasty, the talented woman Zhuo Wenjun, has a place among the two beauties that Guo Jie has always wanted to meet, one of whom is Chen Ajiao, who is hidden in a golden house.

Chen Ajiao was the queen, and Guo Jie probably would never see her again.

The only one left was Zhuo Wenjun, a peerless beauty.

The stunning beauty hidden by Yao Youzhi in the Pingshan Township government office was not inferior to Zhuo Wenjun, which made Guo Jie fall in love with her.

Guo Jie was not interested in Cai Huijun.

He thought of a good way to escape.

Mang Tong and Su Jia cut down two Chinese tallow trees in the yard, blocking the front and back doors of the house respectively. They used this house as a temporary base to block the armored soldiers outside and discuss ways to take over the Pingshan Township government office.

"Take it?"

Chong Huangrou was stunned and said, "With just a few men, you captured the Pingshan Township government with over a hundred armored soldiers and two to three thousand people. Are you talking nonsense?"

Guo Jie, Chong Huangrou, and Yan Yi wanted to leave Pingshan Township and could do so at any time, no matter their swordplay skills. However, leaving now would have felt rather humiliating and defeated.

The purpose of Guo Jie's patrol plan was not achieved.

The property of the Yao family in Beidao was confiscated.

By the time Guo Jie left the Pingshan Township government, Yao Youzhi had burned all the grain in the warehouse with a huge fire, and there was no gain. All the time and effort had been in vain.

Guo Jie nodded solemnly, "It's just an experiment. If we can capture Pingshan Township, the Yao family in the Northern Dao will become a powerful force with assets exceeding five million. This trip is a great harvest, and it's also the first time we've captured a major tyrant."

Although he said he would give it a try, he felt a little heavy in his heart, worried that Yao Youzhi would burn down the warehouse and end up with nothing.

There are two groups of armored five-man forces in the Pingshan Township Government Office. One group has a full complement of one hundred men, and the other has only seventy men, missing thirty five-man forces.

The monthly stipend distributed by the county government temple was based on the full complement of 200 people. The missing 30 people were taken up by Yao Youzhi. The two village chiefs were both relatives of Yao Youzhi, one was his eldest son and the other was his nephew.

The eldest son, Yao Tunzhang, took dozens of armored men to the Rizi house and told Yao Youzhi what happened in the ointment workshop.

The nephew, Captain Zheng, brought more than a hundred armored men and surrounded Guo Jie and his men who lived in the Yizi courtyard. They shouted to the villagers who came from the government office and gathered outside the Yizi courtyard with plows and hoes. The number of people increased and they surrounded the courtyard.

Yao Ji hid in an abandoned warehouse. When she heard the noise outside, she smeared her fair face with mud and tried to walk out of the gate of the government office, but found that the gate was closed. She could only ask someone about the situation.

When she learned that Su Jia was trapped in the Yi Zi courtyard, she gave up escaping alone, went around to the base of the rammed earth wall of the courtyard, and climbed in directly.

Su Jia saw someone climbing over the wall and was about to grab the girl wearing a tattered skirt with an iron spear.

The moment he saw Xijun's face.

"Yao Ji!"

Su Jia exclaimed, hurried over, and tightly grasped Yao Ji's thin wrist: "How could you suddenly appear outside the wall and climb over the wall to get in? You have suffered these days."

He took Yao Ji and walked towards Guo Jie: "Follow me to pay homage to my mentor."

Mentor?

Yao Ji knew that Su Jia respected his teacher very much, and his teacher's name Guo Bianhu would appear every three sentences, so she hurried forward to pay her respects.

"The bride pays homage to her mentor."

Yao Ji remembered something and immediately pulled out several wooden scrolls. "This is the account book that Yao Xiangshi wanted to destroy. Due to an oversight, the real ages of sixty Yao women were recorded. Yao Youzhi bribed the county magistrate's officials to retrieve the account book, attempting to destroy the evidence."

Guo Jie was delighted and took the account book and looked at it carefully.

This is the daily workbook in the account book.

The report was an annual report, which reported the county's household registration, finances, lawsuits, military affairs, industry and commerce, and other situations layer by layer.

In addition, there is a quarterly report book based on quarterly reports.

Monthly report book.

The daily record book is a more detailed daily report than the monthly record book and the four-season record book.

The Western Han Dynasty court established daily, monthly and annual statistical reports and had a strict reporting and review system.

However, deception is human nature and difficult to eradicate.

There will still be cases of false reporting and concealment, so the accounting officials will need to conduct inspections and on-site investigations to check whether the contents of the accounting books are true.

The daily books are too complicated and too numerous, so the accountants will not conduct an examination every day. They do not have the energy to do so. Usually, they check the monthly books or the four-season books through a system of cross-checking.

Part of the daily workbook of Pingshan Township is the registration of weapons and equipment.

For example: ten official crossbows, one hundred and eighty-eight arrows, and thirty-eight hardened sheep-head copper arrowheads.

There is also the status of utensils such as cooking utensils and grinding tools.

For example: There is one cauldron, two joints, and two parts are missing from the top cover, which indicates the missing parts.

In addition, there are details of material changes.

State the balance of last month and the new additions or consumption of this month.

For example: In May, I ordered the three crossbows of the remaining officials to be deployed.

Guo Jie saw the birth dates of sixty concubines in a gap in the diary. According to the calculation, they were already fifteen years old last year.

You need to pay five calculations!
The evidence of tax evasion is overwhelming.

Guo Jie clutched the diary tightly, his expression filled with joy. "With these diary scrolls, we can convict the Yao family of Beidao. However, they are currently trapped in the mansion, so we need to find a way to capture Cai Huijun who has come to the garden."

He came up with a good plan to force Yao Youzhi to surrender. He captured Cai Huijun and used her as a threat to force Yao Youzhi to give up resistance.

Seems impossible.

Regardless of gender, once they are in love, they can do anything.

Guo Jie even saw a dog buying condoms for a goddess and her boyfriend.

He was shocked and unbelievable.

Guo Jie found an opportunity and asked the dog why he bought condoms.

The licker actually said that he felt a sense of participation when the goddess went to bed.

Cai Huijun's appearance is no less than Zhuo Wenjun. Anyone who meets her will be captivated by her smile when she closes her eyes and her delicate hands picking flowers.

The three Yao Youzhi brothers almost became enemies because of Cai Huijun.

Brothers are at odds with each other.

Not inferior to a bootlicker buying condoms.

"Where is the Sheyuan?"

Guo Jie looked at Yao Ji, who was washing her face with water, and mused, "It's indeed impossible for a few people to capture the Pingshan Township seat. Only by capturing Cai Huijun can we have a chance. We can give it a try."

"Cai Huijun?"

Yao Xiangzuo saw Guo Jie's intention and shook his head. "Ever since Cai Huijun arrived at the Pingshan Township government office, Yao Youzhi has been captivated by her and spends his days trying to please her. Capturing Cai Huijun would likely force Yao Youzhi to give up his resistance. However, it's precisely because of Yao Youzhi's obsession with Cai Huijun that he'll immediately send someone to take care of Cai Huijun if there's trouble at the government office."

"Stop making so much noise!"

Su Jia had long disliked Yao Xiangzuo and slapped him hard in the face: "Tell me where Cai Huijun lives, or I'll make you feel the pain of this muscle."

Without waiting for Yao Xiangzuo's answer, he stepped on Yao Xiangzuo's palm with his white leather shoes, making a crackling sound.

"what!"

Yao Xiangzuo screamed in pain, his face contorted with pain, his forehead covered in sweat. "Cai Huijun used to live in a mansion, and Su Jia knew about it. Later, Madam Yao secretly resented Yao Youzhi for constantly trying to please Cai Huijun, so she ordered her eldest son to poison her. However, she mistakenly poisoned one of the maids. Yao Youzhi was afraid that Cai Huijun would be killed, so he allowed her to live in his new mansion."

Yao Youzhi had two sun-shaped houses in his jurisdiction. One was an old house from the past, and Mrs. Yao lived alone in the old house.

One is the new house where Yao Youzhi and Cai Huijun lived together, and the house where Yan Yi was entertained was the new house.

"Let's go to the new house to find Cai Huijun."

Guo Jie held Yao Xiangzuo's collar with one hand and held the ring-handled knife to his neck with the other: "Everyone, step back, or I will cut Yao Xiangzuo's throat."

Captain Zheng secretly cursed Yao Xiangzuo in his heart, saying how could he be caught by Guo Jie. No matter how reluctant he was, he had no choice but to lead many armored soldiers to make way.

"Ah."

Captain Zheng watched Guo Jie's retreating figure, sneered, and called over a squad leader: "Take ten men with you to the warehouse. If anything goes wrong, burn it down immediately. Guo Jie won't be able to take a single grain of corn!"

(End of this chapter)