Three Kingdoms King of the North

Han Zhan looked at the middle-aged man in black official uniform and high crown, who looked a bit rich, and had a question in his mind: Tao Qiansan let Xuzhou be given to Liu Bei, leaving a beautiful story through the ages; The person in front of him gave up Jizhou to Yuan Shao, but left a stupid and cowardly impression on later generations.The same is to give up the territory under one's own jurisdiction to others, why is there such a big gap?

Thinking of this, he asked, "Father, Jizhou is your inheritance, why should you give it up to others?"

"Zhan'er, you should know that after Gongsun Zan occupied Anping, he took advantage of the victory and went south. His sharpness was unstoppable; Yuan Benchu ​​also took the opportunity to lead his troops to the east and went to the camp two hundred miles away from Jizhou." Han Fu introduced to Han Zhan slowly. The current situation in Jizhou: "If you don't invite Yuan Benchu ​​to come to Jizhou, as long as the war starts, Gongsun Zan will attack from the north, and Yuan Shao will attack from the west. How long do you think Jizhou, a mere isolated city, can sustain under the attack from two directions?" time?"

After listening to these words, Han Zhan suddenly realized that his understanding of Han Fu might be a bit too one-sided.It was not his intention that Han Fu let Jizhou go, but he was in a state of being attacked from both sides. With his strength, he was really powerless to meet the two invading armies at the same time.Therefore, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and invite Yuan Shao into Jizhou to jointly resist Gongsun Zan from the north, so as to survive from desperation.

Han Zhan, who has read Romance of the Three Kingdoms, knows in his heart that once Yuan Shao enters Jizhou, he will lure wolves into the house and eat the mediocre Han Fu to the bone.Although he knew that no matter what he said, Han Fu, who was determined to go his own way, would not listen, but Han Zhan still wanted to try.

"As the saying goes: there are no two suns in the sky, and there are no two masters in the people. My father is now a Jizhou shepherd. If Yuan Benchu ​​is invited again, there will be two Jizhou shepherds." Han Zhan asked tactfully: "Who will be in Jizhou when the time comes?" To be the master?"

Han Fu was a little surprised by Han Zhan's words. He hesitated for a long time before saying, "I invited Yuan Benchu ​​to Jizhou for the sole purpose of defending against Gongsun Zan's attack. As soon as Gongsun Zan retreats, I will send more money and food to Benchu ​​so that he can come to Jizhou." Lead the troops back to the Bohai Sea."

After reorganizing the vocabulary in his mind, Han Zhan asked, "If Gongsun Zan retreats, but Yuan Benchu ​​still stays in Jizhou and refuses to leave, how should we respond?"

Han Fu, who was fooled by Xun Chen and Guo Tu, actually said eloquently about Han Zhan's worries: "Don't think I invited Yuan Benchu ​​to Jizhou to counter Gongsun Zan. But I think Benchu ​​should understand in his heart that his Soldiers and horses entering Jizhou are equivalent to getting a place to rest, and I am still providing him with money and food. After Gongsun Zan retreats, even if he does not leave Jizhou for a short time, I believe he will be grateful to me and treat me well to me."

Seeing that Han Fu was so determined to go his own way, Han Zhan was completely speechless. He knew that it would be useless to persuade him any longer, so he obediently shut his mouth and stopped trying to persuade in vain.

Han Fu stood up and said to Han Zhan who was sitting on the couch, "Okay, it's getting late, you should rest early."

Han Zhan hurriedly bowed his body and cupped his hands on the couch: "Father, let's go!"

That night, Han Zhan suffered from insomnia.He felt that he could not sit still and had to find a way to save himself.However, I have just arrived here and am not familiar with the place, if I don't seize the time to make friends with a few powerful people, once something happens, not to mention that I am powerless to turn things around, even my life will be in danger.

After finally waiting for the dawn, he saw Lihua coming in with a copper basin, ready to help him wash his face and change clothes, and hurriedly said: "Lihua, I am going to go for a walk, can you find someone to accompany me?" The reason why he asked this was because Because it's okay for the maidservant to serve him in the mansion, there is absolutely no reason to follow him out to show his face.

"My lord is going out?" Lihua asked in surprise.

"That's right, I'm so bored lying on the couch." Han Zhan and Lihua haven't known each other for a long time, and they still can't tell her some truths, so they have to find a reason to prevaricate: "I want to go out for a walk."

"Patch Patch," Lihua turned her head and shouted towards the door, "Come in!"

Following Lihua's shout, a male servant in Tsing Yi came in from outside. Although he looked much older than Lihua, he still asked Lihua respectfully: "Sister Lihua, what do you want?"

"Young master wants to go out for a walk, you go with him." Lihua said: "Remember, don't make any mistakes, otherwise be careful of your head. Do you understand?"

"Understood." The male servant agreed with a low eyebrow, and then asked Han Zhan, "Do you need to prepare horses for the young master?"

"Need not!"

"Need not!"

Han Zhan and Lihua answered in unison.

Lihua gave Han Zhan a sweet smile, and then said to the servant: "Today you just go out with the young master to relax, so there is no need to prepare a horse."

In order not to alarm more people, Han Zhan and his servants left the governor's mansion through the back door.After the two came to the street, the servant asked Han Zhan, "My lord, I don't know where you plan to go?"

The people Han Zhan desperately wanted to see now were Chang Shi Geng Wu and Bie Jia Min Chun.In his memory, these two people firmly opposed Yuan Shao's move to Jizhou, and even took the risk to assassinate Yuan Shao when the overall situation was settled, but they were beheaded by Yan Liangchou.So when he heard the servant's question, he answered casually: "Let's go to Geng Changshi's residence."

After he finished speaking, he lifted his legs and left.After walking a few steps, he found that the servant did not follow him, so he quickly stopped and looked back, only to see that the servant was still standing where he was.He frowned, and said with some displeasure, "Why are you still standing still?"

"My lord," the servant stood on the spot, pointing in the opposite direction, and said tremblingly, "But Geng Changshi's mansion is on that side."

Hearing what the servant said, Han Fu realized that he was going in the wrong direction, but he was embarrassed to admit his mistake on the street, so he said cheekily: "I know Geng Changshi's mansion is over there, go this way , just to test whether you know where we are going."

Walking along the street towards Geng Wu's mansion, Han Zhan unexpectedly found that the shops on both sides of the street were closed, and there were no vendors hawking along the street. There were very few pedestrians, and everything seemed deserted.

Seeing this scene, Han Zhan couldn't help asking the servant curiously: "What's going on? Why can't I see two people on the street?"

The servant was stunned, he didn't expect the son to ask this question that everyone knew the answer to.However, he thought it was the young master who was testing him, and he replied after a while: "Young master, because it is said that Gongsun Zan from the north is about to lead his troops to the south, the people in the city are afraid, and generally they have nothing to do, so they dare not go out easily. Some wealthy families even They used a water tank full of stones to block the gate, so as to prevent the house from being looted by rebels after the city was broken."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Han Zhan nodded, and suddenly remembered something, then turned his head and asked a servant who was behind him: "By the way, what's your name?"

"Master, the younger one is called Patch." It was the first time the servant heard the son ask his name, and he quickly answered respectfully.In order to deepen the impression of the other party, he pointed to a patch on his clothes and said, "This is the patch. It is said that when my mother gave birth to me, she was mending other people's clothes, so she gave me such a name."

"Patch, Patch." Han Zhan repeated the name twice in a low voice, and was about to ask the servant why after entering Han's house, he didn't change it to something like Han according to the usual practice, but still used such an ugly name .

At this moment, Pie suddenly heard loudly saying: "My lord, we are here. The big house in front is Geng Changshi's mansion."

In front of the door of Geng Wu's mansion, the two saw the door was closed tightly.Han Zhan shook his head towards Patch and told him, "Patch, go up and knock on the door!"

Patch agreed, and ran to the door quickly, slammed on the door vigorously, and shouted loudly at the same time: "Hey, is there anyone inside? Open the door, open the door quickly!"

After knocking for a while, a deep voice came from the door: "Who is knocking?"

Hearing the voice from inside, Patch stopped knocking on the door, and said through the door: "Quickly go and tell Mr. Chang Shi that the young master is coming to visit!"

As soon as his words fell, the two closed doors opened a crack, and an old man poked his head out and looked outside.Han Zhan quickly stepped forward to salute, and said politely, "Old man, please inform your parent, Mr. Shi, that Han Zhan, son of the Han family, has important matters to visit."

The old man looked Han Zhan up and down, and then said politely: "It turns out that the son is coming, please wait here for a while, the old man will go and report to my master."

Chapter 0005 Alliance

Hearing the old housekeeper's report, Geng Wu couldn't help being surprised that the young master was seeking an audience outside the mansion, because he had very little time to deal with Han Zhan, and he couldn't think of any reason why the other party came to visit him.

When he got to the door, he saw that the smiling man in white standing outside the mansion was indeed Han Zhan, the eldest son of Mr. Han. Geng Wu hurriedly stepped out of the threshold and saluted: "I don't know if your son is here." , the old man has lost his way, and I hope to forgive my sin."

Han Zhan replied with a smile: "Geng Changshi, Zhan came to visit rashly, it's a lot of trouble, please don't blame me."

Geng Wu stepped aside, stretched his hand towards the door and made a gesture of invitation: "My lord, if you don't dislike the humble house, please go in and have a seat."

Han Zhan followed Geng Wu to his room. As soon as he entered the door, he saw a middle-aged man in black official uniform kneeling beside the table in the middle of the room.Han Zhan was guessing who the person who came to visit Geng early in the morning was, the person had already got up and bowed to him, saying respectfully, "Min Chun pays homage to the young master!"

"So it's Min Biejia." When he heard that the person in front of him was Geng Wu's friend Min Chun, Han Zhan couldn't help but feel secretly happy, because this way, he wouldn't have to go to Min's Mansion again later.He returned a salute to Min Chun, and said respectfully, "Zhan is so polite!"

As soon as the three of them sat down around the table, Geng Wu's old butler came in with a tray.After placing the tea bowl in the tray in front of Han Zhan, he quietly backed out.

As soon as the steward left, Geng Wu cupped his hands towards Han Zhan, and asked curiously: "I don't know if you come to the humble house, what can you tell me?"

"My father ordered Zhan to go to Yuanying with his seal and ribbon to welcome Yuan Benchu ​​into Jizhou three days later." Han Fu didn't go around in circles with the two, but asked straight to the point: "Before I leave, I would like to hear the opinions of the two adults on this matter." What do you think?"

When Min Chun heard Han Zhan's question, he couldn't help but snorted heavily, and said angrily, "My lord asked the wrong person. We have resigned now, so we have nothing to say."

But Geng Wu's attitude was much better. After hesitating for a moment, he asked back: "I don't know what the young master thinks of Yuan Shao?"

Although Han Zhan has never met Yuan Shao, but to make an evaluation of him, he only needs to copy Cao Cao and Liu Bei's evaluation of Yuan Shao when they were cooking wine and discussing heroes: "Yuan was originally bold and courageous, always planning; Cherish your body for big things, and forget your life for small gains.”

Han Zhan's evaluation of Yuan Shao was far beyond Geng Wu Minchun's expectations.The two looked at each other, and they both saw surprise in each other's eyes.Geng Wu coughed softly, and then asked politely: "Since you know Yuan Benchu ​​so well, why don't you dissuade the Fujun from giving up Jizhou?"

"My father has made up his mind, and persuasion is useless." After Han Zhan said this with a bitter face, he suddenly remembered the reason Han Fu told him that he must give up Jizhou, and asked them curiously: "My lords , I would like to ask you, if Gongsun Zan attacked Jizhou from the north and Yuan Shao attacked Jizhou from the west at the same time, would we be able to resist it?"

Min Chun sneered, "What Gongsun Zan relies on is nothing more than his white horse righteousness. The [-] crossbows of Zhao Fu and Chenghuan are enough to break it. After defeating Gongsun Zan, it will be easy to turn around and deal with Yuan Jun. Yuan Benchu's army There is no food, as long as our army can't hold on, it will definitely withdraw in a few days."

"There are millions of people in Jizhou, and they can provide food for ten years. You can attack when you advance, and you can defend when you retreat." Geng Wu said not to be outdone, "Don't look at Gongsun Zan's menace, but his strength can't compare with the Fujun. Our troops don't go out of the city to meet the enemy, as long as we don't hold out, Gongsun Zan will withdraw his troops sooner or later."

Min Chun sighed, and then said: "Jizhou is a rich land, especially after Huaili Hou Huangfusong's governance, the government has sufficient money and food, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. As long as Jizhou can be guarded, then it will have the strength to compete for world hegemony .Perhaps because of this, Yuan Shao salivated and tried his best to seize Jizhou."