Han official!

Chapter 99: Decision
Jinchengluli is only three days' journey from Chang'an.

Zhang Qian brought thirty Hexi horses with him and borrowed the help of Wei Cao to recruit, transport and capture prisoners for labor service. He sent the thirty valuable Hexi horses to Jinchengluli. Since he was walking, his speed was a little slow.

Guo Jie thought about it, took the two letters and went to Jinchengluli first, quickly reclaimed a thousand acres of fertile land, and intensified the cultivation.

After he and his wife Yi Shuo had been intimate for a few days, he returned to Chang'an and learned that the government had issued a new decree.

"Labor prison?"

Guo Jie asked, "Do you know who the official in charge of the labor inspection is?"

Except for the Gaojie Duting and Zhichengmen Duting, all the Dutings in Chang'an were controlled by Dou Ying. Zhao Yu and Zhang Tang further restrained the power of Dou Ying's guests in the Duting Office to reduce the possibility of rebellion by foreign relatives.

Of all the executioners in the Ting'an of Chang'an, a maximum of fifty were retained, and the rest were sent to labor prisons.

Guo Jie was thinking about the reform of the prison system, which was to assign the prisoners' labor reform rights to the labor prison, and have the Chang'an officials and temples manage the prisoners.

Labor supervision is equivalent to the labor reform bureau.

"I don't know."

Wearing a silk robe, Wei Guang knelt beside the horse-hoof stove in the extraordinary house and said enviously, "All the prisoners from the various capitals in Chang'an have been sent to the government temples for forced labor. There are as many as six or seven thousand of them, more than the number of prisoners under the command of Zhu Anshi, the Chang'an lieutenant."

Guo Jie understood.

It seems that it is not only used to curb the power of the chief of the capital, but also to check and balance the prisoners under Zhu Anshi's jurisdiction.

The Chang'an Wei Zhu Anshi had prisoners under his command, and the Chang'an Wei Zhang Tang had executioners under his command.

Guo Jie was deeply moved. It seemed that Zhao Yu and Zhang Tang were both the smartest of the smart. They had already thought of various countermeasures. Even if they became public officials in the future, they would be able to climb very high.

"Da da--"

A carriage covered with black cloth appeared at the door of Feichangwu. A jailer wearing an iron crown and black clothes was kneeling on the carriage. He looked like Yi Zong, Guo Jie's brother-in-law, and was an unfamiliar jailer.

The cart covered with soap cloth stopped at the door of the Extraordinary House. The jailer glanced at Guo Jie who was standing next to the horseshoe stove in the house with a look of contempt. He gave him a look, and the dozens of soldiers behind him immediately sent two people to walk towards the Extraordinary House.

Dozens of soldiers wearing flat turbans, red sash armor, red trousers, hook shoes, and holding spears, looked very much like the Terracotta Warriors in the Han Dynasty Tomb. They suddenly came to Guo Jie's door.

Wei Guang and Mang Tong's faces turned grim, and they immediately stood up and stared at the soldiers surrounding a carriage covered with black cloth.

The visitor is not good.

There were only a dozen guards at the Gaojie Duting, and the other dozen were patrolling the neighborhood. The remaining dozen immediately surrounded the area with ring-handled swords in hand.

More than ten guards at the pavilion faced the large number of soldiers without any fear, and surrounded dozens of soldiers with unwavering determination.

Otherwise, he would feel ashamed of the pork, scallions, vinegar, salt and other food that Guo Jie gave to the guards.

The Gaojie Pavilion and the Zhichengmen Pavilion are the two pavilions that are most envied by all the pavilions in Chang'an.

The Han people's ethos is to value death over life.

Even if the guard died at the hands of dozens of soldiers, he could not be ashamed of Guo Jie's kindness, otherwise he would be scolded by his father when he returned home.

Gaojie Duting is very close to the gate pavilion of Zhichengmen. It was originally a flag pavilion of a small market. Later, the small market was moved to Chang'an Jiushi, and the flag pavilion was used as a pavilion temple of the gate pavilion.

Zhang Qian, the head of the Zhicheng Gate, was not there. When the assistant head heard that dozens of soldiers had surrounded the Gaojie Duting, he left only two guards at the Zhicheng Gate to check and pass on the talisman, and immediately led all the other guards to rush over.

The thief catchers of the Chang'an official temple who were on patrol at the Gaojie Duting saw that something was not right, so they sent one of them to go find Yi Zong quickly, and called more thief catchers at the same time. The rest of the thief catchers held iron bars and ropes around their waists, and walked quickly towards the Feichang House.

There were more and more guards and thief catchers at the door of the extraordinary house.

Du Juecao, sitting on the cloth-covered carriage, had a pale expression. He hadn't expected a mere Dutingchang to be so popular. Du Juecao could only step down and sneer, "I'm the Juecao of the Right Secretary of the Interior. The soldiers I've brought with me are all county soldiers. Are you planning a rebellion?"

A word of rebellion.

It can often intimidate all officials and people.

But today it has no effect. The guards at the pavilion, the thief catchers, and the prison clerks who rushed over after hearing the news, none of them retreated. They stared at Du Juecao, the right internal historian, with fierce eyes.

The fierce looks made Du Juecao's heart tremble. He couldn't understand why Guo Jie allowed the thief catcher Gan and the prison clerk to protect him like this.

Du Juecao looked at Guo Jie with less contempt in his eyes. "I have come here to take Guo Jie for interrogation. When I was pardoning you at the Chang'an Temple, the prisoners from the Wan family in Liushi accused you of abusing your power and embezzling money. Come with me."

The Jue Cao of the Right Secretary of the Interior?

Guo Jie walked out of the extraordinary room, looked at Jue Cao in front of him, and knew his purpose.

The County Judgment Office is in charge of deciding cases, adjudicating cases, and applying the law.

In addition to managing the prison, he also has the power to record prisoners.

The governor, prefect or other officials of prefectures and counties will inspect the prisoners and decide whether they can be pardoned (you).

Forgiveness means that the county will record and examine the prisoners in the county government and temple to prevent wrongful imprisonment and excessive imprisonment.

That is, the system in which the higher judicial authorities regularly inquire into the cases closed by the lower judicial authorities, verify the charges and redress wrongful convictions.

After the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty, in view of the Qin Dynasty's harsh laws and cruel punishments, which aroused resistance due to the large number of prisons, the prisoner recording system was established.

The members of the Liushi Wan family had been burned to ashes, and the knight-errant they had raised was sentenced by Zhang Tang to work as a thief in the city and sent to the garden where Sang Hongyang was to build the Shanglin Garden.

The life of the ranger of the Wan family was exhausted and the last bit of value was squeezed out.

"As far as I know."

Guo Jie said sternly, "All the members of the Liushi Wan family were burned to death by Jin Shuzuo. Many people were present at the time. It is said that Jin Shuzuo also died at the hands of Lei Bei. Whether this is true or not is unknown. There are no living members of the Wan family in the official temple of Chang'an."

A sentence about official duties.

Du Juecao was immediately furious. How dare a mere captain of a pavilion dare to call himself an official in front of him?

The following guilty!

Du Jue Cao shouted, "Has anyone from the Wan family complained to you? I am the Jue Cao, and my decision is final, not yours. Come, bring him to the prison for questioning."

Two county soldiers took a few steps forward and wanted to arrest Guo Jie, but a golden guard immediately appeared in front of them.

Wei Guang, wearing a lace robe and holding a golden guard, stood in front of Guo Jie.

Mang Tong's figure disappeared and he approached silently, approaching the cloth-covered carriage.

The guards at the pavilion, the thieves apprehending officers, and the jail historians took a few steps forward.

"Guo Jie!"

Du Juecao's face turned pale. He was surprised to encounter such strong resistance in arresting a small-time Dutingzhang. He shouted, "Are you trying to defy the laws of the county magistrates? If you instigate the guards to hinder the county officers from arresting anyone, I will report you to the Supreme Court immediately."

Guo Jie grabbed Wei Guang's robe, knowing he needed to go to the county jail. "Don't worry. No one dares torture an official before he's convicted. Go find Zhang Tang, the superior official, and I'll go with him."

(End of this chapter)