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Chapter 6: Tu, Tiger
Pavilions are divided into township pavilions and capital pavilions. Township pavilions are post pavilions set up in villages and towns. They are responsible for public security and arrests, civil affairs, and the management of staying passengers, as well as the delivery of documents. They are also called post pavilions.

Under the post station, there are four stewards in charge of the relay station, warehouse, kitchen and stable. Under the stewards, there are assistants who are officials who assist the stewards.

The Relay Housekeeper is in charge of lodging, assisted by the Relay House Assistant. The Warehouse Keeper is in charge of storing supplies, assisted by the Warehouse Assistant. The Kitchen Keeper is in charge of meals, assisted by the Kitchen Assistant. The Stable Keeper is in charge of the horse and carriage frames, assisted by the Stable Assistant.

Capital, city wall.

Duting is a pavilion set up in the city. Since Gaojie is the location of the envoys' residence of vassal states, the Gaojie Duting is quite special. It is half a post station and half a frontier fortress. The number of pavilion guards is more than that of ordinary township pavilions.

They are well-equipped with armor and even have yellow-shouldered crossbows.

"Cangshoufu."

Yuan Tu learned that the knight who had fought the tiger hand-to-hand was Guo Jie, a hero from Chen County. He was afraid to take the risk, so he called his cousin, Cang Sefu, and whispered to him, "Go find a few executioners, each armed with a yellow-shoulder crossbow, and have them shoot at the three men through the back window of the extraordinary house."

It is easy to dodge an open spear but hard to guard against a hidden arrow.

What's more, the yellow-shoulder crossbow is far more powerful than a bow and arrow and can easily penetrate heavy armor.

The power of the yellow-shoulder crossbow was too great to be used properly in Chang'an City. Without the Chang'an Wei, it could not be used, so Yuan Tu found several prisoners of the imperial guards as scapegoats.

"A knight who fights tigers with his bare hands."

Yuan Tu didn't expose Guo Jie's identity, and deliberately softened his tone: "Come forward, I have something to tell you. If you're worried, let's walk to the door of the Extraordinary House together."

In order to dispel Guo Jie's vigilance, he took the initiative to walk behind the guard holding a red-painted double-arc shield and stood in front of the guards.

Guo Jie still hesitated to step forward.

Yuan Tu sneered inwardly, thinking he had a way to force Guo Jie to submit. He mentioned a name: "I am familiar with Cao Ji. I heard that he died in the county a few years ago. I wonder if you know the cause of death."

Guo Jie's expression suddenly changed.

Cao Ji was killed by him personally because of a slip of the tongue after drinking. Cao Ji revealed the private minting of coins, so he had to kill him to silence him.

Guo Jie was burdened with many blood debts, and the knights who had once been attached to him would never tell anyone about it. Although he had dismissed the knight who had been causing trouble all day and had begun to instigate him to mint coins, due to his prestige, no one would tell anyone about it within five years.

How could Yuan Tu know about Cao Ji?

All we know is that Cao Ji was killed by him.

still is
The private minting of coins has been exposed.

Guo Jie's mind was racing and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead. If it was the former, there was still a glimmer of hope, but if it was the latter, he would have no choice but to flee for his life.

"Ah."

Yuan Tu sneered and said, "Cao Ji once gave me a few fine half-liang coins, saying he was going to undertake a great undertaking and would have no shortage of money after it was accomplished. At that time, I suspected someone was minting coins privately. The only person in all of Chen County who had the courage to do so was the heroic Guo Jie. But soon after, news came that Cao Ji had fallen into the river while drunk. My suspicions about you increased a bit, but of course, they were just suspicions until the kitchen steward handed over a few newly minted half-liang coins to the warehouse steward. Then I saw your name on the talisman, and my suspicions turned into certainty."

Guo Jie said gravely, "So what if it's new money? The money I used to pay for grain purchases was half a liang, not some privately minted elm pod coin."

The coins he privately minted were half-liang coins minted by the government, so the fake ones became real ones, thus avoiding being discovered by the government and greatly reducing the possibility of being caught.

Yuan Tu said disdainfully, "You're far away in Henei County in Guandong, cut off from the news and don't know what's happening in Chang'an. The current emperor abolished the half-liang coin and replaced it with the three-zhu coin in the first year of the Jianyuan period, which is this year. Where did the new half-liang coin come from?"

A wake-up call.

Guo Jie's scalp tingled instantly. At that time, many people in the room saw him give half a tael of money to the cook. Even if they didn't know whether it was new money or old money, they could use it as evidence to confirm that he gave half a tael of money.

The physical evidence, half a tael of new money, was in Yuantu's hands again.

A fatal handle was caught.

"Haha."

Yuan Tu couldn't help laughing when he thought of the heroic hero Guo Jie of Chen County letting himself be manipulated by him. He said with a sinister look, "If you can help me secretly mint three-zhu coins worth one hundred gold coins, I will help you keep this a secret. How about that?"

One gold is worth ten thousand coins. One hundred gold is worth one million coins.

Yuan Tu really dares to speak!
Guo Jie knew that even if he privately minted a three-zhu coin worth one hundred gold and gave it to Yuan Tu, his final fate would be the same as Cao Ji's.

After getting drunk, he fell into the river and died.

"it is good."

Guo Jie said grimly, "If you can drag a tiger weighing several hundred kilograms, I will agree to mint three-zhu coins privately. In addition, I will also give you the two tigers as you please."

"Haha."

Yuan Tu laughed even louder. "It's a deal. I'll go and drag the tiger. I'll show you how brave I am. It's not a disgrace to you to be a guest of the Yuan family."

Outsiders did not know what the two men were whispering to each other, but from Yuan Tu's laughter, it could be seen that Guo Jie seemed to be convinced.

Mr. Cang was overjoyed. He left the back window with several executioners and hurried to the snow in front of the Feichang House, waiting to share the profits.

Except for the chef, all the four stewards of Gaojie Duting have the surname Yuan, and they cannot let others take the lead.

Zhang Qian and Wei Guang suddenly felt a surge of resentment.

Being angry will not help.

They could only watch Guo Jie give in and let Yuantu snatch away the tiger they had fought so hard for.

"Look at it!"

Yuantu came to the two tigers, secretly thinking of competing with them. He took off his heavy red-striped fish-scale armor, threw away the ring-handled sword at his waist, and went into battle lightly, holding the tiger's tail with both hands.

I want to drag two tigers at the same time.

"color!"

“Good luck!”

"The Pavilion Master's divine power!"

Amidst the cheers of many fawning people, Guo Jie always looked at Yuantu coldly. He watched Yuantu take off all his armor, throw away his ring-handled sword, and become a lamb to be slaughtered.

"hateful!"

Wei Guang slammed his fist against the column and said angrily, "How could he be so blind as to fight the tiger with him? He risked his life to kill the tiger, but then he surrendered it to someone else. How can he be so shameless!"

At this moment, a flash of knife light appeared.

"puff!"

There was a sound of blood spurting out, and the defenseless rabbit was beheaded with a knife, and its head rolled to the feet of Cang Sefu.

Yuan Tu died with his eyes wide open, his dying thought confined to one thought: what about the chivalrous hero's promise to put his life before his own, to value loyalty and trustworthiness above all else? Guo Jie, for the sake of loyalty and trustworthiness, spared the enemy who had murdered his nephew. How could he have betrayed his promise?

Without faith and loyalty, is he still Guo Jie?
Everyone was stunned, staring blankly at Guo Jie, who was covered in blood, and stood there in a daze, not daring to move.

I can't believe what I see is real.

The chief of Gaojie, from the Yuan clan of Yangdi, was a guest of Dou Ying, the Marquis of Weiqi.

He was actually killed by a commoner!
How dare he!

Guo Jie wiped the blood off his face and shouted loudly.

"The murderer is Guo Jie from Chen County!"

(End of this chapter)