Han official!

Chapter 165 White Horse
Guo Jie took the daily record book and looked through it carefully. On the surface, there was nothing wrong with it. It looked like a normal account book.

It is even more complete than the county's account book.

Guo Jie knew one thing: the more perfect the account book looked, the more problems it contained.

The fodder for each month is recorded here.

Guo Jie planned to alert the enemy and test Di Guangwu's attitude.

According to the records in the account book, the amount of fodder purchased each month has been gradually increasing since last year, but the number of horses raised on the farm has not increased or decreased at all.

This is where the problem arises: the amount of horse feed is increasing, but the number of horses raised is not increasing.

Until last month, I even bought half a year's worth of horse feed in advance.

Di Guangwu had already thought that when Guo Jie came to cause trouble, he would definitely bring up the fodder.

After all, the number of horses on the farm has not increased, but the amount of fodder purchased has increased. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that there is a problem.

Di Guangwu has already thought of a solution these days on how to deal with the officials who come to inspect from above.

Especially we have to deal with Guo Jie.

“Horse feed has increased a lot, but the number of horses raised has not increased.”

Di Guangwu gave the excuse he had prepared long ago.

"This is because the petty officials deliberately bought more fodder because they were worried about a drought this year, which would cause a significant shortage of fodder and a sharp increase in prices. They had no choice but to buy more fodder in advance to prepare for the possible drought this year."

There is nothing wrong with this sentence. Preparing for a rainy day is also an important duty of the horse farm.

The money given by the county temple every year is a fixed amount, and the stable is required to raise a specified number of horses.

Regardless of whether there is a disaster this year, the money given by the county magistrate to the temple will not increase or decrease.

If there is a drought and the price of fodder rises, the farm will not be able to feed enough horses.

By that time, Di Guangwu will be held accountable.

Di Guangwu took the initiative to say that he was preparing for a rainy day and bought more fodder just because he was worried about a drought.

Guo Jie had no choice but to give up, but he also found out what he wanted.

The more you explain, the more guilty you feel.

It seems that the one hundred white horses are hidden in the horse farm.

Guo Jie continued walking forward and came to the hay warehouse where hay was stored. He looked back at Di Guangwu behind him and found something wrong.

When he was in the stable, Di Guangwu did not show any panic.

Can't find any flaws.

It was not until Guo Jie arrived at the hay warehouse that a trace of panic appeared on Di Guangwu's face, as if something here made him nervous.

The purpose of this trip is to find the one hundred white horses hidden by the Huns.

Only a hundred white horses could make Di Guangwu feel uneasy.

Guo Jie understood that the hidden white horse was most likely near the hay storage.

He took a few steps forward, reached out and touched the hay in the hay barn, and sensed something was wrong.

Normally, grass fodder is hay, and to prevent it from getting moldy, it is often dried very well.

The hay stored in the hay barn was actually a little damp, which is a mistake that absolutely cannot be made for a horse farm.

As long as the horses eat moldy hay and become sick in large numbers, all the officials at the stable will be held accountable.

Guo Jie said in a deep voice, "Go and pull all this fodder out."

"No."

Di Guangwu stepped forward and blocked the way in front of the hay warehouse. "The records of these hay are very strict. No one can take the hay out without the order of the county magistrate."

"If sparks hit the hay barn after it's pulled out, and the hay in the barn gets burned, no one can be held responsible for burning the barn."

"Snapped!"

Su Jia walked out, punched Di Guangwu, and stared at him coldly.

"When the accountant comes to inspect, let alone a mere horse-breeding official like you, even if the county magistrate were here, he wouldn't dare to say a word of disapproval."

There must be something wrong here. It would be fine if Di Guangwu didn't stop it. The more he tried to stop it, the more it showed that the hay warehouse was closely related to the hidden white horse.

There is a lot of horse feed in the hay barn, and it is not necessary to take it all out, and there is not enough time.

Su Jia, An Guo Shao Ji and others walked over and started picking out fodder, then slowly walked inside and opened a passage.

It leads directly to the back of the hay barn, where you can see what's inside.

When Su Jia, An Guo Shao Ji and others followed the opened passage of the hay warehouse and emptied the back of the hay warehouse, a wall made of wooden boards was exposed.

"wrong."

Guo Jie walked in and knocked on the wooden board of the hay storage. "It's empty here. Open the wooden board and see what's inside."

Without saying a word, Su Jia punched the wooden board of the hay barn. With a "bang", the board was smashed to pieces.

The horse farm's hay barn was built next to a large hill, and there should be a pile of earth behind it.

This is not a stone mountain, but a dirt mountain.

When Su Jia opened the wooden board, a passage appeared behind the hay warehouse.

Guo Jie turned around and glanced at Di Guangwu with a cold expression on his face.

"Don't go in."

Di Guangwu panicked, covering his mouth where a tooth had fallen out, and said with blood foaming on his face, "There's nothing inside. It's a dead end. A dirt hill isn't as stable as a stone hill. If you go in, it's very likely to collapse."

Guo Jie sneered and said, "Your words are a good reminder. Su Jia will bring him here and let the horse official walk in front."

"No! I don't want to go in!"

Di Guangwu struggled desperately and didn't want to go in, but he couldn't resist Su Jia, who was very strong, so he could only be pushed into the passage.

There was one person left at the entrance of the passage. Chong Huangrou stood at the door of the hay warehouse and did not follow them in.

Only if Chonghuang Rou stood at the door could she stop all the Di clan members who tried to cause trouble.

Su Jia carried Di Guangwu's clothes and walked in front, looking like a newborn calf who is not afraid of a tiger.

There was no fear at all, no worry about the collapse of the hill.

Guo Jie followed behind and went in. Before entering, he had already observed the passage of the earthen hill.

Although the passage was dug out of the mud pile, it was reinforced with wooden boards.

There will be no collapse, so you can enter with confidence.

Guo Jie nodded, drew out his ring-handled sword, and walked into the passage cautiously.

This passage dug out of the earthen hill is not very long, only a few hundred steps in length.

Guo Jie walked out quickly, and at the other end of the passage was a small valley.

It's not even a valley, just a small col that can barely support hundreds of white horses.

As expected, Guo Jie found a hundred white horses at the back of the passage.

There were also a dozen or so people dressed strangely. Their clothes did not look like those of the Han people, but more like those of the Huns.

"kill!"

Guo Jie rushed forward without any hesitation and slashed at the nearest Hun.

Before the Hun could react, Guo Jie slashed at his neck and chopped off his head on the spot.

"Di Guangwu! What do you want to do?"

"Kill that Han Chinese!"

"Di Guangwu must be trying to take the 100 white horses for himself!"

The Huns were furious and took up their swords and began to resist.

Because Di Guangwu was walking in front, he was used as a shield and was quickly hacked to death by several Huns.

These Huns were very fierce and were dumbfounded when they met Guo Jie. They were no match for him at all.

Guo Jie alone could kill all the Huns.

What's more, there are Su Jia and Mang Tong next to them.

The dozen or so Xiongnu who tried to resist only lasted a moment before they were killed by Guo Jie and his two companions. An Guo Shaoji followed at the end, but before he could make a move, all the Xiongnu turned into corpses on the ground.

"Ugh!"

An Guo Shao Ji sighed heavily, his face full of regret: "I haven't killed any Huns yet. It's a pity that these Huns are too useless and died so quickly."

Guo Jie walked over and began to count the number of hundreds of war horses.

no more, no less.

There were exactly one hundred white horses.

"it is good!"

Guo Jie's face was filled with joy: "Let's go and take these one hundred white horses back. As long as we can get them back to Chang'an, this trip will be worth it."

As for the property of the Dishan family, we will talk about it later. The most important thing is to bring back the one hundred white horses.

As long as he had these one hundred white horses, Sang Hongyang would be able to get the official position he wanted.

Guo Jie was able to get what he wanted.

One hundred white horses were led out of the hay barn and were seen by people outside.

These people immediately went to find Di Shan and told him everything about the hay warehouse.

Di Shan panicked on the spot. Selling one hundred white horses privately was already a serious crime, not to mention colluding with the Huns.

This is a crime of genocide.

"We can't let Guo Jie go!"

Di Shan's face darkened, and a murderous look emerged: "Immediately go and call the people from the stables to stop Guo Jie. Also, call all the members of the Di clan here."

Yan Yi immediately drew out his two-foot-long sword and walked towards Di Shan: "You can't leave. You have to stay here, otherwise, there is only one way to go, and that is death."

Di Shan was shocked. Looking at Yan Yi who had drawn his two-foot sword, he realized that Yan Yi's arrival was a trap.

Guo Jie must have wanted to use Yan Yi to hold him back so that he could run to the hay storage and look for the traces of the one hundred white horses.

This means that the news of the white horse had leaked out long ago.

"hateful!"

Di Shan secretly hated him and sneered, "The Di clan members have already left as instructed. Even if you kill me today, it will be useless and will not stop the clan members from besieging Guo Jie."

Yan Yi had a cold face and said nothing, with the two-foot sword in his hand pressed against Di Shan's neck.

The meaning is very clear. He is ready to use Di Shan's life to threaten all members of the Di family.

"go!"

Yan Yi forced Di Shan to go out and head towards the hay storage: "As long as they hold your life in their hands, the Di family will definitely be afraid to kill anyone without authorization."

Besides, Guo Jie was an official from Chang'an, and not everyone had the courage to kill an official from Chang'an.

Di Shan gritted his teeth and said nothing, as if Yan Yi had hit the nail on the head.

Just as Yan Yi said, if no one took the lead, no matter how brave the Di clan members were, they would not dare to kill the officials from Chang'an.

However, Di Shan was determined to die, and he would leave Guo Jie and others in the horse farm even if it meant risking his own life.

Guo Xie is dead.

The Di clan still has a glimmer of hope.

As long as Guo Jie leaves the horse farm, he will be taken back to Chang'an on a white horse.

The only fate that awaits the Dishan clan is genocide.

Di Shan knew that he would not survive, and he only hoped that some of the Di family members could survive.

It won't lead to genocide.

Yan Yi took Di Shan to the door of the hay warehouse and found that many members of the Di clan had surrounded Guo Jie and did not dare to let him leave.

These members of the Di clan knew that having secret dealings with the Huns was a crime punishable by genocide.

As long as Guo Jie left here, he would soon attract a large number of soldiers.

At this point, there is no room for easing the tension between the two sides, and only one side can survive.

"Kill it!"

Di Shan suddenly shouted, "Go and kill Guo Jie. Killing him is the only way to survive."

After killing Guo Jie, their body was thrown into the nearby Xingze Lake. No one could find any trace of Guo Jie, whether alive or dead.

"puff!"

Before he finished speaking, Yan Yi didn't hesitate at all. He slashed Di Shan's neck with his two-foot sword and killed him instantly.

"what!"

Di Shan screamed, his eyes widened, and he fell to the ground, covering his neck.

He twitched a few times, blood gushed out of his neck, and eventually he turned into a corpse on the ground.

Yan Yi knew what Di Shan was planning, which was to make a loud noise.

Shouted the words "Kill Guo Jie".

Yan Yi knew Di Shan's plan, but still brought him here for only one purpose.

Killing Di Shan in public intimidated all members of the Di clan.

Just after Yan Yi killed Di Shan, all the members of the Di clan were stunned.

The Di family members could never have imagined that Yan Yi, a Confucian scholar, would kill people without any hesitation.

"kill!"

Guo Jie took advantage of the fact that the Di clan members had not reacted, swung the ring-handled knife in his hand, and rushed forward.

Without waiting for the Di clan members to take action first, Guo Jie took action first.

Kill decisively!
Guo Jie killed a member of the Di clan with the ring-handled sword in his hand, and then swung the sword to chop the neck of another member of the Di clan.

In just a few breaths, the ring-handled knife in Guo Jie's hand left a trail of afterimage, killing several members of the Di clan.

Chong Huangrou, Su Jia and others behind him were not willing to be outdone, and quickly followed Guo Jie and took action.

Streams of blood splattered out, and one by one the Di family members fell to the ground.

Facing the siege of hundreds of people, Guo Jie did not retreat at all. Instead, he took the initiative to attack, as if he was the one with the advantage in numbers.

Yan Yi killed Di Shan and did not stop, but went straight to the back of the Di clan members.

"what!"

"what!"

"what!"

A group of people named Di fell to the ground and turned into corpses, with blood all over the ground.

Guo Jie and others quickly killed thirty or forty members of the Di clan, intimidating all the remaining members of the Di clan, who stood still and dared not move.

The Di clan members were terrified.

I have never seen such fierce people. Just a few of them dared to charge at hundreds of people.

In the end, hundreds of people were so frightened by the killing of Guo Jie and his men that they had no intention of resisting.

"Do not kill me!"

"Surrender... Surrender!"

"Run, they are not human, run away quickly!"

The Di clan members threw down their ring-handled swords and spears, ran back crying for their parents, and did not dare to stay at the door of the hay warehouse.

A siege of hundreds of people was quickly resolved, and the Di family members were frightened even before the soldiers from Chang'an arrived.

"We can't let these people get away."

Su Jia wanted to continue chasing: "We must kill all these people and eradicate them completely, so as to avoid any future troubles."

Guo Jie reached out and grabbed Su Jia, who was about to rush out. He shook his head and said, "No need. You can't run away even if you want to. There are densely packed post offices throughout Chang'an. These people will be caught by the postmasters as bandits before they can even get out of Chang'an."

He turned around and looked at the hundreds of white horses, laughed and said, "Let's go and take the white horses back to Chang'an."

(End of this chapter)