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Chapter 30 Gate Pavilion
"Enter and exit the gate."

Zhang Tang said gravely, "In winter, it is dark at noon (18:21). If Jia Ziguang opens the Zhicheng Gate of Chang'an at dusk (:) and invites foreign troops to enter Chang'an, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"Of course."

Zhao Yu's expression froze. "The gatehouse is not only responsible for identifying thieves and controlling the opening and closing of Chang'an's city gates, but it's also a crucial military location. If the gatehouse is lost, Chang'an will be left with its gates wide open, and the city walls will be useless. During the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion, Dou Ying, Marquis of Weiqi, served as the Grand General. His army has many cliques, so we must be on guard. However, sending prisoners directly to eliminate Jia Ziguang is likely to disturb Dou Ying."

"What Mr. Zhao meant is..."

Zhang Tang roughly guessed Zhao Yu's intention: "This matter must not be made public. We must quietly eliminate Jia Ziguang. Firstly, this will eliminate the threat he poses, and secondly, we won't have to alert Weiqi Hou Dou Ying."

The fact that Jia Ziguang hid dozens of sets of red-ribboned armor showed that he had the intention of treason, whether he was following the orders of Weiqi Hou Dou Ying or acting on his own initiative to emulate Kuai Tong and persuade Han Xin to make himself king and persuade Dou Ying to rebel.

Jia Ziguang cannot stay!

"Of course."

Zhao Yu said with a sinister look in his eyes, "In a few days, Jia Ziguang's shops in the East and West Markets will start shipping money and silk to the Jiashe compound outside the city. This will be a good opportunity. We just need to kill all of Jia Ziguang's young and strong men. The old, weak, women, and children left in Nanyang County will be like a balm. The wolves and tigers in the county will pounce on them. Without the need for the government to send in prisoners, they will tear the Nanyang Jia family to pieces and completely eliminate Jia Ziguang."

Among the brave and aggressive knights, not all of them value loyalty and trust as much as Guo Jie.

People like the hero Guo Jie are indeed rare.

Most of the knights are greedy for profit and are even willing to turn against each other for money. There are many knights who are brothers one moment and kill each other the next because of uneven distribution of spoils.

The cook's flat-capped head hit the ground, his mouth wide open, and he was completely frightened when he heard the conversation between the two superiors.

I really started to tremble.

He and Guo Jie just wanted to root out the problem, but who would have thought that it would involve a lot of things, even involving internal strife among foreign relatives and nobles such as Weiqi Hou Dou Ying.

"The prisoners under the Chang'an Wei's command cannot be used."

Zhao Yu frowned and said, "The Chang'an Wei is Dou Ying's subordinate. It's not appropriate to mobilize the prisoners under the Chang'an Wei's jurisdiction to eliminate Jia Ziguang this time. It's a difficult problem to assign someone to kill Jia Ziguang."

Zhang Tang picked up a gold ingot that was about to be stored in the warehouse and said, "Guo Jie, who brought the gold ingot, once had a feud with Jia Ziguang. There are also many gold ingots hidden in the boxes in the Jiashe courtyard outside the city. If you behead Jia Ziguang, all the gold and bronze utensils, millet, money and silk in the Jiashe courtyard will belong to him."

"good."

Zhao Yu also laughed. "Guo Jie was quite considerate. He seized a large amount of money and silk from Yuan Ying's warehouse. Any other captain would have kept it all for himself, but Guo Jie only kept a hundred gold coins, distributed some to the stingy officials, and gave the remaining millet to you and me, the two officials. I think he has already considered himself Zhang Wei's confidant."

Zhang Tang had a stern face. Even though he only believed in the laws of the Han Dynasty and would not keep confidants or form cliques, he could not help but smile when he heard that his subordinate, the Chief of the Capital, Guo Jie, was praised by the Chang'an Governor Zhao Yu for his thorough work.

He bowed, and with the kitchen steward, he left the temple's back hall and headed to Gaojie Duting to discuss an important matter with Guo Jie. "Mr. Guo's reputation has spread throughout Chang'an."

Zhang Tang knelt on the sitting platform in the Duting Jingshe and said with a smile, "As expected of Guo Jie, the heroic hero who fought tigers with his bare hands, he has accomplished something astonishing in his first post as the Duting Chief of Gaojie."

君？
When Guo Jie heard Zhang Tang call him politely "Mr. Guo", he felt uncomfortable all over. When this cruel official smiled at him again, he felt even more uneasy.

"Mr. Zhang speaks frankly."

Guo Jie acted as if he valued loyalty and loyalty: "Thanks to Mr. Zhang's care, I have escaped the death penalty of being beheaded in public. If there is anything I can do, Mr. Zhang will tell you to do it. Even if it means killing someone in the street, I will not hesitate for a moment."

The honorifics can be "jun" or "gong".

Guo Jie took into consideration that Zhang Tang was still young and it was not appropriate to address him as "gong", so it would be more appropriate to use "jun".

However, after thinking it over again and again, he still used the word "public".

This is an occupational disease of his. Within the system, using the wrong name may very likely ruin one's future.

In short, it is correct to speak in a higher and more grand manner.

When Zhang Tang heard the word "Zhang Gong", he burst out laughing. At such a young age, he was not the future cruel official Zhang Tang. When he heard Guo Jie, who was already a hero in Chang'an, talking to a county lieutenant, he kept calling him "Zhang Gong".

I couldn't help but feel secretly happy.

The relationship between the two became much closer in an instant.

Zhang Tang said with a smile, "I will speak frankly and not play tricks on you, the great hero of Chang'an. Jia Ziguang is guilty of a serious crime of concealing his possession and cannot be allowed to remain. The government is also unable to mobilize its soldiers to carry out a raid and destruction. I would like you to gather the knights-errant to attack and kill him. If you succeed, the government will offer a generous reward."

The fact that a guest of Dou Ying, Marquis of Wei, secretly stored armor is a serious matter, and the fewer people who know about it, the better.

Currently, only he and Zhao Yu knew that there was also a cook.

The chef cannot stay.

Zhang Tang and Guo Jie had a close relationship, so he stopped talking about the secret storage of armor in time and just said that it was a serious crime.

"Don't worry, Mr. Zhang."

Guo Jie stood up from his seat and said solemnly, "If I cannot kill Jia Ziguang's entire family, I will bring their heads to me."

(End of this chapter)