Three Kingdoms King of the North

When Guo Jia heard Han Zhan asking himself, he just smiled lightly, and instead of answering Han Zhan's question, he asked instead: "Don't the development of everything coincide with the master's idea?"

Seeing that Guo Jia exposed himself in public, Han Zhan laughed dryly, and then told Guan Yu, "Yun Chang, send someone to call Yide back immediately. Judging from all the signs, Lu Bu doesn't want to be an enemy of our army, so there is no need to force him." Too tight, lest he jump over the wall in a hurry and be forced to fight to the death with our army."

"Your subordinates!" Guan Yu agreed, and called a confidant, telling him to go after Zhang Fei, so that he would not have to continue chasing Gao Shun and the others, and quickly withdraw his troops back.

Tai Shici, who stood respectfully by the side, waited for Guan Yu's envoy to leave before walking up to Han Zhan, and said in shame, "My lord, my subordinate is incompetent, and I need you to come to rescue me from afar."

Han Zhan got off his horse and helped Tai Shici, and said to him with a smile: "What is Ziyi talking about, you went to recruit recruits for me, and you were chased by the enemy, how can I ignore you."

After Tai Shici was moved, he asked Han Zhan for instructions: "My lord, I see that you have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. I wonder if they should be stationed outside the city or settled in the city?"

Han Zhan looked up at the city wall not far away for a while, and then said: "The city can't accommodate so many soldiers and horses, so we should camp outside the city. General Zilong!"

When Zhao Yun heard Han Zhan calling him, he hurriedly urged his horse forward, and asked respectfully, "What's your order, my lord?"

"The army is setting up camp outside the city." Han Zhan told Zhao Yun, "The Marquis and the military division will follow General Ziyi into the city first. After setting up the camp, you also come to the city."

Zhao Yun quickly replied: "This subordinate obeys orders!"

Zhao Yun stayed outside the city to direct the soldiers and horses to set up camp, while Han Zhan followed Tai Shici into the city.On the way, Tai Shici asked Han Zhan curiously: "My lord, we clearly have the strength to destroy Lu Bu, but why did we let him go?"

When Han Zhan heard Tai Shici's question, he couldn't help turning his head to look at Guan Yu who was following behind, and then asked in surprise, "Why, didn't Yun Chang analyze this matter for you?"

"I've analyzed it." Tai Shici nodded and said, "But I still want to hear what the lord has to say."

Han Zhan looked around and saw that there were still many people on both sides of the street, looking at his group with trepidation.He coughed softly, and said, "Ziyi, this is not a place to talk. When you get there, Ben Hou will naturally tell you the reason."

When he came to the county government office, Han Zhan took a seat in the middle and saw that there were no outsiders present, then he said, "Ziyi, don't you want to know why the Marquis let Lu Bu go?"

Tai Shici got up quickly, and saluted Han Zhan: "I would like to hear more about it!"

"There are two reasons." Han Zhan stretched out two fingers and said, "First, the current priority of the Marquis is to unify the four prefectures of Ji, Qing, You, and Bing as soon as possible. Before this goal is achieved, there is no need to build more Second, since Lu Bu is called a family slave with three surnames, it shows that he is not a person who is willing to live under others for a long time. Although he is under Yuan Shu's hand at this time, sooner or later there must be a difference of opinion, and with his restraint, Yuan Shu will You can't be distracted and come to deal with us, so that we can unify the north with peace of mind."

After listening to Han Zhan's explanation, Tai Shici finally came to his senses. He quickly flattered and said, "My lord is really far-sighted, and my subordinates admire him very much!"

Although he knew that Tai Shici was sycophanting himself, he still felt quite comfortable hearing such flattery.Han Zhan waved his hand to Tai Shici, and said to him, "Ziyi, we have been sitting for so long, why haven't the food and wine been served yet?"

Chapter 464

Hearing Han Zhan's question, Tai Shici couldn't help showing an embarrassing expression on his face. After bowing to Han Zhan, he said in embarrassment: "My lord, it's not because my subordinates are unwilling to entertain you. Buy food and drink."

"What, can't you buy food and drink in the city?" After hearing Tai Shici's answer, Han Zhan couldn't help being taken aback, secretly saying that although the city is not big, it's not too poor to buy food and drink, right?He was silent for a moment, then asked again: "Ziyi, what's going on here, tell me quickly and listen."

"Returning to my lord," Tai Shici said with a face full of shame: "After recruiting thousands of recruits in Yangzhou, I still have a lot of money left. After being trapped in this city by Lu Bu's soldiers and horses, at first I was able to work in grain merchants." They bought food everywhere for the soldiers under their command. Unexpectedly, a few days ago, several big grain merchants in the city suddenly said that they had run out of food, and refused to sell any more food to their subordinates. As a result, the army ran out of food..."

With a loud bang, Han Zhan raised his foot and kicked the short table in front of him over, and said repeatedly: "An unscrupulous profiteer maliciously cut off our military rations. He should be killed, he should be killed! Come here, come here!" ah!"

Chen Dao, who was standing outside the hall, heard Han Zhan's shout, hurriedly walked into the main hall, waiting for Han Zhan's order.

Han Zhan tapped Chen Daxu twice with his hand, and said angrily: "Uncle Zhi, you immediately take people to arrest those damned grain merchants, one by one."

Before Chen Dao left, Guo Jia asked tentatively, "My lord, what do you plan to do with these grain merchants?"

"Kill, don't keep one, kill them all!" Han Zhan said angrily, "I want these shameless villains to understand what will happen to me if I offend him."

"My lord, please think twice." Knowing that Han Zhan planned to kill all the grain merchants in the city, Guo Jia hurriedly dissuaded him: "Our army will take over Xuzhou sooner or later. If we massacre Xuzhou grain merchants at this moment, I am afraid it will have a negative impact on our army's reputation." hinder."

"Feng Xiao, it is precisely because our army will enter Xuzhou sooner or later that these grain merchants must be severely punished, lest the local tycoons think that our army is weak and can be bullied." Han Zhan explained to Guo Jia in a stern tone uncharacteristically. , ordered Chen Dao: "Uncle Zhi, not only should all the grain merchants be arrested, but also their property should be confiscated..."

Speaking of this, Han Zhan was silent for a while, silently considering how to deal with the property of these grain merchants.After he came up with a regulation, he went on to say: "As for the confiscated property of grain merchants, three parts will be distributed to the people in the city, and the rest will be used as military funds."

Seeing that Han Zhan had made up his mind, Guo Jia didn't persuade him anymore. He also felt that if he wanted to gain a foothold in Xuzhou, he really needed to gain a foothold, otherwise even if he captured the city of Xuzhou, he would not be able to gain a foothold here.He just asked: "My lord, Uncle Zhi can lead his troops to confiscate the property of the grain merchants, but I don't know who you plan to send to supervise and execute them?"

Han Zhan's eyes turned to Yu Qianling who was sitting in the corner, and a smile appeared on his face again: "This gentleman, is it the Yu Qianling that General Ziyi said?"

When Yu Qianling heard Han Zhan calling him, he quickly got up and bowed to salute: "If you go back to the Marquis of Anyang, you are the villain."

Since Han Zhan decided to send troops to Qingzhou to unify the four northern states, he has been constantly searching for talents, but because he is too young and his foundation is shallow, even if he uses the emperor to command the princes, the number of talents who come to join him is very limited.Although this Qianling is not well-known, but since he can take the initiative to vote, he is ready to entrust this person with a heavy responsibility.

Thinking of this, Han Zhan said with a smile: "Since Mr. took the initiative to vote, I will never treat you badly." He thought for a moment quickly, and felt that he had just captured Qingzhou and needed a large number of officials to govern it. This is located in Qianling, so you can send it there first, "Now in Le'an County, Qingzhou, there is a prefect position vacant, I wonder if the master will give in?"

Yu Qianling abandoned his official position and left with Tai Shici because his former master Liu Yao was at a disadvantage in competing with Yuan Shu for Yangzhou. Tai Shici went to Qingzhou to join Han Zhan.

When he was trapped in Licheng by Lu Bu's soldiers, Yu Qianling also secretly regretted it.If it weren't for having nowhere to go, I'm afraid he would have slipped away long ago.Fortunately, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led troops to rescue him, which freed him from despair.Seeing Han Zhan coming to Licheng in person, he was still thinking about how to get the other party's attention so that he could get an official position.

Yu Qianling never dreamed that Han Zhan was so generous that he appointed himself the post of prefect. Although Le'an County is not a big county in Qingzhou, no matter what, the power is much greater than when he was Yu Qianling. .He quickly knelt down in front of Han Zhan, and said gratefully: "Thank you, my lord, thank you, my lord!"

"Sir, please get up quickly!" Han Zhan asked Yu Qian to get up, and then remembered that he didn't know what the other party called the order, so he asked tentatively, "I don't know what to call sir?"

Hearing Han Zhan asking about his name, Yu Qianling quickly replied, "Returning to my lord, my subordinate's surname is Wang Minghun, and his style name is Xuanchong. He is from Yangzhou."

"Wang Taishou," Han Zhan nodded after knowing the other party's name, and continued: "This Marquis ordered my subordinates to arrest the grain merchants in the city, please draft a notice listing the crimes of these grain merchants, and let the city The people in the village know it. After they have been punished, you will distribute food to the people. I wonder if the prefect Wang is willing?"

After Wang Hun was appointed as the prefect of Le'an County by Han Zhan, he was looking for an opportunity to show off.Hearing Han Zhan's arrangement, he quickly replied, "Since the lord has orders, the subordinates should obey them."

After Wang Hun and Chen Dao left, Guo Jia looked at their backs, thinking about Han Zhan's intention of making such an arrangement, and couldn't help nodding his head slightly.

Guo Jia's action was noticed by Han Zhan.Han Zhan asked with a smile: "Feng Xiao, have you guessed the purpose of this arrangement?"

Guo Jia turned around and replied with a smile on his face, "My lord gave Wang Hun the post of prefect in order to buy bones with thousands of dollars. Presumably, there will be a large number of talented people coming to join him soon. As for letting him be promoted to comfort the people, And to deal with those grain merchants is to test his ability, if he is really talented, with the character of the lord, he will definitely be of great use in the future."

After Han Zhan waited for Guo Jia to finish speaking, he couldn't help laughing, and said: "Feng Xiaozhen is a god-man, and he guessed the mind of this Marquis so thoroughly. With your help, why don't you worry about not being able to unify the four northern states. "

Chapter 465 Li Wei

There are three grain merchants in Licheng, the largest grain merchant is named Mi Shuo, who is a distant relative of Mi Zhu who works in Xuzhou Biejia.When Tai Shici led thousands of remnants into the city, he contacted two other grain merchants to raise the price of grain, and sold some moldy grain to Tai Shici at twice the market price.

Not long after seeing Lv Bu's troops camping outside the city, and Tai Shici still standing still, Mi Shuo had evil thoughts.On the one hand, he sent people out of the city to contact Lu Bu, willing to act as an internal response for the other party; on the other hand, he notified the other two grain merchants that they should no longer sell grain and grass to Tai Shici's soldiers and horses.

If the generals staying in the city were other generals, if they encountered Mi Shuo and others' actions, they might have already sent troops to grab food.But Tai Shici was an upright man, thinking that after his troops entered the city, he really bought up all the grain in the grain merchant's warehouse, which resulted in a shortage of grain in the army.If Guan Yu and Zhang Fei hadn't come to help in time, I'm afraid that even if Lu Bu didn't attack the city, his soldiers and horses would flee on a large scale sooner or later.

When the two grain merchants in the city learned that Han Zhan's army had come to Licheng, they were afraid that the other party would settle their accounts against them, so they hurriedly came to Mi Shuo to discuss a plan.Although Mi Shuo was also worried that after the incident failed, he would cause endless troubles for himself, but considering that he was a distant relative of Mi Zhu, maybe Han Zhan would take Mi Zhu's face into consideration and let him go.

It was precisely because of this consideration that when I saw two grain merchants running to my home in a panic, I pretended to be calm and told them: "Don't worry, if the Jizhou army wants to gain a firm foothold in Xuzhou, they may not be able to offend Xuzhou. The local wealthy businessmen are powerful, otherwise where would they go to raise money and food?"

Mi Shuo's words gave the two grain merchants a reassurance. They thought to themselves: No matter what, this is Xuzhou's territory, and Mi Shuo is a relative of Mi Zhu who does not drive Mi Zhu. If you want to gain a firm foothold here, you must be inseparable from yourself.Thinking of this, the two grain merchants put their hearts in their stomachs again.

However, their joy soon turned into sorrow. Just as the three of them were in Mi Shuo's living room, drinking and changing glasses, they suddenly heard the sound of slapping on the door.When Mi Shuo heard this voice, he couldn't help frowning, called his housekeeper, and ordered displeasedly: "Housekeeper, go over and see, who is so unruly, knocking on the door outside, affecting me and the two of you?" Brother drinking?"

The butler agreed and was about to go over to see what happened.Before he could walk out of the living room, the door was kicked open, and a group of wolves and tigers rushed in from outside. "What do you guys do?" Seeing the soldiers barging in, the steward was taken aback, but he still had the courage to ask tremblingly, "So...what are you doing here?"

As soon as he finished yelling, there was a sharp pain all over his body. Five or six soldiers turned their spears upside down and beat the butler cracklingly with their spear shafts, making him howl like ghosts and wolves.

These soldiers were brought by Chen Dao to arrest the grain merchants. He was planning to go to the homes of the other two grain merchants first, but someone reported that the two grain merchants had come to Mi Shuo's mansion, so Chen Dao took the soldiers under his command. The soldiers were divided into three teams, and went to three places to arrest them, while he led his troops to surround the Mi Mansion, and then broke down the door to arrest people.

Mi Shuo first heard his housekeeper screaming outside, and then a group of soldiers led by a general broke into the living room.Mi Shuo didn't know who was coming, so he hurriedly stood up, cupped his hands at Chen Dao and said, "This general, whose subordinates are you, what are you doing here?"

Chen Dao was too lazy to talk nonsense with Mi Shuo, so he turned his head and told the soldiers following behind him: "Take them all for me, and don't let anyone in the house go." The soldiers agreed, and stepped forward to take down Mi Shuo and the others. He broke into the backyard again, drove the family members and servants in Mi's mansion out of their rooms, and gathered them in one place.After doing all this, the soldiers began to search the property of the Mi Mansion.