Three Kingdoms King of the North

"You don't know something," Hua Hu was afraid that Han Zhan would think he was reporting a false account in the middle, so he quickly explained: "The repair of the city wall this time is not just to repair the damaged parts, but also plans to repair the entire city wall. It's a foot high, and now that there's a lot of chaos, there's no harm in building the city wall a little higher."

Hua Hu's statement is related to Han Zhan's.He originally thought that simply repairing the city wall would be enough to block bandits or yellow turbans. If an established army came to attack, the low city wall would not be of much defense at all.Since the entire city wall was to be raised, the cost of repairs would naturally increase.He tentatively asked: "Master Hua, I wonder if the county can afford the repair expenses?"

Hua Hu shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "Although the county has saved a little in the past two years, it can give up to five thousand gold at most. The three thousand gold that is missing can only be found elsewhere."

Hearing this, Han Zhan almost threw the gold seal in front of Huahu at Huahu. He thought that the county could provide five thousand gold, but you gave me a repair budget of eight thousand gold. Isn't this a pastime for me? .

Huahu, who was good at observing words and expressions, saw Han Zhan's discordant face, and said quickly, "Although there is still a gap of three thousand gold, please don't worry about it. My subordinates have a plan, as long as you come forward, three thousand gold can be obtained at your fingertips."

Hearing what Hua Hu said, Han Zhan immediately became interested, and asked quickly: "Master Hua, plan to make an appointment?"

"There are a few wealthy merchants in Sheguo City. Although they are not as rich as an enemy, they are also quite wealthy." Hua Hu continued: "This subordinate plans to buy the best wine house in the city, so that you can invite them in the name of the king. Go to the banquet."

When Han Zhan heard this, he understood what Huahu meant, and planned to solicit donations from wealthy businessmen at the banquet.However, he still asked a little unsteadily: "It's a good idea to spend money on the master, but are those wealthy businessmen willing to pay out of their own pockets?"

"Please rest assured," Hua Hu patted his chest and assured Han Zhan, "If the three thousand gold is not enough, my subordinates will never let them leave the wine house."

Seeing that Huahu had already made up his mind, Han Zhan's heart suddenly became more at ease.He nodded, and said in agreement: "In this case, there will be no trouble for Master Laohua."

In the east of the city is a wine house opened by a merchant from Chang'an, which is the most luxurious wine house in Sheguo County.Near noon, almost all the well-known wealthy businessmen in the city gathered in the wine house.They received the invitation from Huahu. Although they all knew that there must be another chapter for this banquet, they did not dare to offend Huahu, the local emperor of Sheguo County. in the wine house.

Seeing Master Hua accompanied a young gentleman in a white robe, walking leisurely into the wine house, everyone immediately guessed the identity of the young gentleman, stood up and saluted each other, and said in a chaotic voice: "The grass-roots see the envoy! "

As Han Zhan walked towards the place inside, he smiled and said to everyone: "You are welcome! I am new to this place, and I am not familiar with the place. I just invite you to come here to meet and chat. Don't be restrained."

Han Zhan walked to the table in the middle and sat down, letting Huahu sit on his left.He raised his hands and pressed down: "Everyone, please take a seat!"

After everyone was seated, Huahu stood up with the wine bowl, and said to everyone with a smile on his face: "Everyone, Hua has been the chief bookkeeper in Sheguo County for five or six years, but he has never held a banquet for any guests. Today I invite you all to have a party with Han Shijun's wine, you must have fun. Do it!" After finishing speaking, he raised the wine bowl and drank it all in one gulp. The wine in the wine was drunk.

After Hua Hu filled his wine bowl with wine, he lifted it up again, and said to everyone, "I invite you to come to the banquet today. Apart from welcoming the envoy, Hua has something else to discuss with everyone."

As soon as Hua Hu's words came out, everyone still didn't understand his off-screen voice, everyone's expressions suddenly changed, and the air in the hall suddenly froze.

Seeing the embarrassing situation, Han Zhan, who was going to keep silent and let Huahu praise him, could only stand up and bow his hands at everyone, saying, "Everyone, I have something embarrassing for my envoy to invite you here today. I need your help for this matter. If there is something offended, Han hereby apologizes to you all."

"Han Shijun," seeing Han Zhan personally apologizing to himself, a wealthy businessman below couldn't sit still, he stood up and asked: "I don't know if there is any embarrassment, Shijun just say it. As long as we can do our best, Just never push back and hold back."

"Han sees that the city wall of Sheguo County is low and dilapidated, so he intends to repair it." Han Zhan didn't go around with the wealthy businessmen, but said straight to the point: "However, there is a slight shortage of funds, and I hope you can generously help. "

"I don't know how much money the envoy needs?"

"Three thousand gold."

"Three thousand pieces of gold, so much?!" After hearing this, all the rich merchants whispered to each other.

The wealthy businessman stood up, cupped his hands towards Han Zhan, and asked: "Mr. Han, please forgive me for saying that if you want to repair the city wall, it will cost you no more than four thousand gold at most. Could it be that the majestic county government of Sheguo can only give one thousand gold? "

"This repair of the city wall is calculated to cost [-] gold." Han Zhan said to the rich merchants with a smile: "We are not simply repairing the damaged city wall, but in the process of repairing, we will increase the height of the city wall." In order to better convince the wealthy businessmen, he added, "Everyone should know that this city may be the only safe place in times of chaos. Only with high and thick walls can everyone's life and property be protected."

After Han Zhan finished speaking, the wealthy businessmen started talking again.Seeing that the rich businessmen hadn't made a decision, Han Zhan became uneasy. He was even thinking, if the rich businessmen refused to donate, would they need to take tough measures?

He coughed lightly, and after everyone's attention was focused on himself, he said again: "I hope you can think carefully, if you don't repair the city wall as soon as possible, once bandits or yellow scarves attack, your wealth will be destroyed." Your life is not guaranteed, so your family property is not cheap in the end, thieves?"

The rich businessman frowned and thought for a while, then raised his hand first, and said with difficulty: "What you said is very true, I would like to do my best, and I would like to donate three hundred gold, so that you can relieve your worries!"

Once there is someone who takes the lead, those who follow will naturally follow one after another. In a short time, people shouted one after another in the room: "A certain person is willing to donate two hundred gold!" "The young one is willing to give one hundred gold!"

The rich merchants below were calling for the amount they wanted to donate, while Huahu kept recording it.His memory is excellent, as long as someone calls out how much money to donate, he will know who the other party is without looking up, and immediately record the name and amount in the book.

When no one spoke in the hall, Hua Hu put the recorded booklet in front of Han Zhan, and said in a low voice: "Master, we have raised [-] gold in total, which is more than enough to repair the city wall. Seeing that the cost of repairing the city wall has been collected, Han Zhan couldn't help showing a satisfied smile on his face.

Chapter 0046 recruitment and gold cake

Han Zhan didn't expect that it was just an ordinary banquet, and there would be such a huge profit. Some thoughts that were originally hidden in his heart inevitably became vivid.

In the next few days, every day, wealthy businessmen sent the money they promised to donate to the county government in an endless stream.While Huahu was receiving money from wealthy businessmen in the treasury, Han Zhan asked Zhao Yun to be invited to the main hall to discuss more important matters with him.

After calling Zhao Yun to sit down, Han Zhan said straight to the point: "Zilong, the money for repairing the city wall has been collected, and we can start work in a few days. However, it is not enough to have a city wall without soldiers. Therefore, after careful consideration, I plan to recruit a group of recruits." .”

Hearing what Han Zhan said, Zhao Yun agreed very much, "What you said is very true. There are less than a thousand soldiers involved in the country. If bandits and yellow scarves invade, you can only protect yourself. If recruits are recruited, they will practice day and night. When the thieves come to commit crimes, they will definitely be beaten to death."

"Zilong, I'm going to leave the recruiting to you," Han Zhan asked tentatively, "Can you be willing?"

As soon as Han Zhan finished speaking, Zhao Yun stood up and volunteered to say, "Emissary, Yun immediately took people to the streets to post recruitment notices. I believe that within half a month, we can recruit [-] recruits for the envoy."

"Zilong stay here, I still have something to say." Seeing that Zhao Yun was about to walk outside, Han Zhan quickly stopped him: "It will take thousands of civilian men to repair the city wall. If recruits are recruited from them, it will definitely affect the people in the city." The repair of the city wall. So I plan to let you go to other places to recruit troops."

"Recruiting troops elsewhere?!" After Zhao Yun repeated Han Zhan's words, he frowned and asked, "Where does the envoy plan to send Yun to recruit troops?"

"Go back to your hometown, Changshan is sure." Han Zhan replied with a smile, "I plan to ask you to bring thirty cavalry and one thousand gold back to your hometown and recruit a group of recruits there. I don't know what Zilong wants?"

Regarding Han Zhan's arrangement, Zhao Yun did not reply immediately, but fell into deep thought.Seeing that Zhao Yun did not speak, Han Zhan also became nervous. He asked Zhao Yun to recruit soldiers not on a whim, but because in real history, Liu Bei, who had not yet left Yuan Shao, secretly sent Zhao Yun to He really decided to recruit hundreds of people as his own private soldiers.What I am doing now is nothing more than imitating the example.

After thinking for a long time, Zhao Yun finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Han Zhan and asked, "Master, there are only forty cavalry in the city. If Yun takes away another thirty, there will not be enough manpower to protect him."

"Zilong, don't worry." Seeing that Zhao Yun was willing to accept his mission, Han Zhan immediately felt better. He smiled and said, "As long as Rob is by my side, there shouldn't be any danger."

The two were talking, when Han Zhan suddenly saw Huahu carrying a wooden box, hunched over and staggering towards the main hall.He stared at the box held in the other's hand, and said to himself that he didn't know what was inside, it looked quite heavy, it couldn't be gold.

Huahu put the small wooden box on the table in front of Han Zhan, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and said out of breath, "Master, this is a hundred gold sent by Hu Cha."

Han Zhan didn't rush to open the wooden box, but looked at Huahu and asked in puzzlement, "Who is Hu Cha?"

Hearing Han Zhan's question, Hua Hu immediately remembered that the new envoy was not familiar with the wealthy businessmen in the city, so he reminded him carefully: "Have you forgotten that the envoy was the first to donate [-] yuan that day?" The rich merchant of Jin."

"It turned out to be him." Han Zhan stared at the box in front of him, and continued to ask: "Didn't he say to donate three hundred gold, why is there only one hundred gold here?"

"Hu Cha's three hundred gold has been deposited into the treasury." Hua Hu replied with a smile on his face, "Here he also honors the envoy."

"Honor me?" Although Han Zhan is in urgent need of money now, he will not accept this kind of windfall until he asks clearly, so he looked at Hua Hu and asked, "Master Hua, What is his purpose in doing this?"

Huahu seemed to have guessed that Han Zhan would ask such a question, so he quickly grinned and replied, "I don't know, but Hu Cha has different vendettas with bandits and yellow scarves. Not only are his goods repeatedly robbed, Moreover, he himself was kidnapped by bandits and extorted two hundred gold. Therefore, when he heard that the envoy wanted to build a city wall to prevent bandits, he immediately donated generously."

After figuring out the origin of the wooden box on the table, Han Zhan finally opened the lid with confidence.But after he saw the glittering things inside, he couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise. He finally understood why Huahu seemed so struggling when he came in with the box in his arms. It turned out that there was a box full of gold in it. cake.

Han Zhan has seen this kind of gold cake unearthed from the tomb of Haihunhou on TV. It is shaped like a round cake, with a slightly convex surface and irregular holes caused by drip casting. ice crack phenomenon.However, this kind of gold cake is generally not used for circulation, but only for storage, reward, gift, tribute, atonement and other purposes.

He picked up one of the gold cakes and weighed it in his hand, feeling that it weighed about half a catty.I counted the gold cakes in the box again, no more, no less, exactly one hundred pieces, that is to say, this box of gold cakes weighed fifty catties.He put the gold cake back into the box, closed the lid, and pushed towards Zhao Yun: "Zilong, when you leave, take this box of gold cake with you."

"I can't do it!" "I can't do it!"

As soon as Han Zhan finished speaking, Zhao Yun and Hua Hu spoke in unison to stop him.

Zhao Yun cupped his hands and said to Han Zhan: "My lord, this is the filial piety of the rich businessman to your finances, Yun dare not accept it!"

"Why don't you dare?" Han Zhan pushed the wooden box a little further in the direction of Zhao Yun, and said with a straight face, "I put these golden cakes here. I can't eat them when I'm hungry, and I can't drink them when I'm thirsty." .Stop talking nonsense, take it away quickly, take it with you, it will come in handy sooner or later."

Seeing Zhao Yun holding up the wooden box on the table, Huahu couldn't help asking Han Zhan curiously: "Master, where do you plan to send the county lieutenant on business?"