Han official!

Chapter 27: Clan Punishment
Guo Jie stood at the door of the warehouse. The door was a small door. He took advantage of the narrowness of the door to avoid being surrounded by more than a dozen prisoners, but his face still darkened.

Another Chang'an Wei, Zhu Anshi, actually came. In Chang'an City, if you want to find another hero who can fight a tiger with his bare hands, it must be Zhu Anshi. From another perspective, it also shows that Guo Jie's amazing feat of fighting a tiger with his bare hands is not a feat that can be accomplished by a county hero.

A county governs dozens of counties.

The knights from dozens of counties in Guandong all obeyed Zhu Anshi's orders.

Guandong is the prefecture with the most dense population, including Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Qingzhou, and Jizhou east of Hangu Pass.

"Brother."

Zhang Qian, on his way over, saw the situation was not looking good. He led a dozen crimson-clad knights over the overhanging earthen wall, passed the prisoners blocking the inner chamber door, and gathered behind Guo Jie. "Yuan Ying has summoned Zhu Anshi. The situation is not favorable for us. Kill the guards at the Gaojie Duting. We have the Han law to rely on. If you and I dare to attack Zhu Anshi, we will have no choice but to flee to the Western Regions."

Guo Jie was well aware of the urgency of the current situation. When he purged the powerful clansmen stationed in Gaojie Duting, he did not rely on the "Han Law" but knew the temper of the cruel official Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu established a large-scale criminal justice system, invented various torture instruments, and fabricated charges to kill people. Thousands of ministers and royal family members were wrongfully killed and their families were exterminated.

Not thousands.

Thousands.

Those who were killed were ministers and members of the Liu royal family.

Guo Jie killed dozens of guards, but both the number and status of the people he killed were not worth mentioning in front of the cruel official Zhao Yu.

"Zhang Qian."

Guo Jie called over Zhang Qian, whose eyes flashed with a fierce look, ready to fight to the death. He quickly spoke a few words and asked, "How long will it take to complete this?"

Zhang Qian stared at his brother who remained calm and composed with eyes wide open. He was stunned at first, but soon his expression turned into admiration.

Convinced.

He was completely convinced by his brother Guo Jie.

Faced with the current situation where there is no hope of survival, we can all think of countermeasures.

Zhang Qian thought, "Two quarters (30 minutes). No, one quarter will be enough. Brother, just one quarter is enough. It will be enough to complete the task you have instructed."

He took cover of the overhanging earthen wall, crouched down, and led a dozen knights in crimson robes to disappear around the corner of the warehouse, and their whereabouts were unknown. It seemed that they were afraid of Zhu Anshi's blockade, and were afraid of death, so they broke away from the warehouse where the slaves had blocked the door.

Yuan Ying saw Zhang Qian appear near the overhanging earthen wall, but Zhu Anshi, who was outside the narrow boudoir, did not see him and did not remind him. Instead, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief after letting Zhang Qian escape.

Zhang Qian also had the identity of a palace attendant.

He did not dare to kill the official without authorization.

"One moment."

Guo Jie took out the ivory seal, bound with a dark blue ribbon, and walked out of the inner chamber. Looking at the dense crowd of slaves surrounding the door, he held up the seal and said, "I am the chief of the Gao Street Police Station. I have come here tonight to apprehend thieves. Someone has accused the Yang Di Yuan clan of a serious crime punishable by death for their entire clan. Please do not delay my official duties."

Documents?

Yuan Ying sneered and looked at the ivory seal with a blue ribbon that Guo Jie held high with greed on his face. The chief of Chang'an had great power and he had already regarded the position of chief of Gaojie as a sure thing.

One hundred gold coins are enough to buy Guo Jie's head.

The corn and sorghum stored in the granary of the house were enough to buy the position of Gaojie Dutingzhang from Dou Pengzu, the Marquis of Nanpi.

"Even if you try your best to argue, it's useless."

Yuan Ying's face was filled with hatred. "A mere captain of a small city, costing a hundred gold coins, is a fitting death. You are destined to die in the warehouse tonight. Even calling Zhang Tang will be of no avail. I forgot to tell you that the Chang'an magistrate Zhao Yu and the attendant Sang Hongyang have left Chang'an together to survey a prime site for building a garden. No one can save you!"

Zhu Anshi held the hilt of the ring-handled sword in one hand and hesitated to take action. He was waiting for several Jue Zhang soldiers to carry over a pottery cauldron and take the gold cakes piled in it.

Verify the authenticity of the gold cake before taking any action.

He killed all the members of the Yangdi Yuan clan without authorization. Except for a few people like Yuan Ying in the warehouse, the Yangdi Yuan clan suffered the disaster of being exterminated and many lives were lost. No one could save Guo Jie.

Zhang Tang, who valued Guo Jie the most, arrived and was the first to punish Guo Jie severely. Zhang Tang was a strict disciple of the Legalists.

The last few members of the Yangdi Yuan clan carried a pottery cauldron and passed by Guo Jie. A dozen slaves held their red-painted double-arc shields tightly, ready to knock Guo Jie away at any time if he tried to snatch the gold cake. The rest of the slaves raised their bows and crossbows and aimed them at Guo Jie's body through the Wangshan Mountain.

Yuan Ying looked towards the door of the boudoir expectantly, hoping to see Guo Jie snatch the gold cake so that he could kill him directly without waiting for Zhu Anshi to verify the authenticity of the gold cake.

As a result, he was disappointed.

Guo Jie held up the ivory seal with a blue ribbon and watched several members of the Yuan clan carry away the pottery cauldron, without any intention of taking any action.

Zhu Anshi didn't say a word. He picked up the gold cake in the pottery cauldron and began to check whether the gold cake was mixed with copper, iron or other substances.

"You're not running away yet?"

Yuan Ying was baffled and couldn't understand why Guo Jie didn't flee. "You have committed a grave crime today, a crime that has infuriated both humans and gods. If Zhu Shangli doesn't kill you tonight, he will capture you and take you to Chang'an Prison, where you will be beheaded and thrown into the streets."

Guo Jie was in a dead end.

There is no more way out!
Tonight, you will definitely end up with your head and body separated.

"Who said that I have committed a serious crime?"

Guo Jie shouted, "Zhang Qian, arrest Yuan Ying, the head of the Yuan clan who is hiding armor and intending to rebel."

A sentence about secretly keeping armor.

Zhu Anshi couldn't help but be shocked and put down the gold cake he was kneading.

This is a crime that is punishable by death for the entire clan!

Marquis of Tiao Zhou Yafu was the son of Marquis of Jiang Zhou Bo, the eighteenth marquis in the early Han Dynasty. He was born into the upper class and was granted the title of Marquis of Tiao after suppressing the Rebellion of the Seven States. Despite his noble status, he still died for secretly storing armor.

"nonsense!"

Yuan Ying was both shocked and angry: "When did the Yang Di Yuan family secretly hide armor? Don't make such false accusations."

Before he could finish his words, Zhang Qian came out from behind the granary with several knights in crimson clothes. The red belted armor they were wearing was gone, leaving only a white robe lining.

Zhang Qian went straight up the wooden ladder to the granary, opened the small door on the upper level, took out a pair of red ribbon armor, and piled them at the door of the granary.

One pair.

Two pairs.

Five pairs.

There were nearly twenty sets of red-ribboned armor.

Zhu Anshi's face changed. The price of helping Yuan Tiao was already over a hundred gold coins. He put down the glittering gold cake, turned around and left without any regrets. He did not dare to get involved in the matter of secretly storing armor.

Yuan Ying watched Zhu Anshi hurriedly leave, his face filled with despair as he said, "Don't leave, my lord! I'm giving you all the millet and sorghum in my home, hoping you can kill Guo Jie."

Zhu Anshi paused, silently calculated the market prices of corn and sorghum in his mind, then quickly put on his robe and trousers and left the neighborhood without looking back.

There's no point adding money.

Far more than the cost.

Can only leave.

Just as Zhu Anshi walked out of the courtyard, Wei Guang heard the news and hurried over with the knight in crimson robes, just in time to see the scene of Chang'an Wei Zhu Anshi being forced away.

Wei Guang was stunned, with only one thought in his mind.

This is also possible for a man?!

(End of this chapter)