When Han Zhan's team arrived at the east gate of Sheguo County, there were already county officials who had received the news outside the gate to greet them. When he was still more than twenty steps away from the welcoming crowd, Han Zhan turned over and dismounted, and walked forward accompanied by Zhao Yun.

A man wearing an official uniform and a beard walked out of the crowd, saluted Han Zhan respectfully, and said, "Huahu, the head of Sheguo County, has seen the envoy. ”

Don't look at the name of the main book with the word "tiger", it sounds like a military general, but he has deep eyes and broad forehead, skinny as wood, if you add a pair of round-framed glasses, wear a melon skin hat, and hold a folding fan or hookah in his hand, it seems to be the Shaoxing master of later generations.

Before coming to Sheguo County, Han Zhan had learned about the situation from Tian Feng, and knew that the previous state-related order was to hang the seal and abandon his post, and the affairs in the county were usually handled by the county. At this moment, seeing that in the crowd that came to greet him, there was only the main book and no county book, he couldn't help but ask: "Flower master book, I don't know where the county master is?" ”

Hearing Han Zhan's question, the muscles on the chief bookkeeper's face twitched violently a few times, and then replied: "I don't know, in the middle of last month, there was a yellow turban attack, and the county lieutenant and the county lieutenant went out of the city with five hundred county soldiers to meet the battle, but they were ambushed by the other party. Less than a hundred county soldiers fled back, and all the county officers and county lieutenants were lost in the chaos. ”

Knowing that both the county lieutenant and the county lieutenant were killed in the battle with the Yellow Turban, Han Zhan couldn't help but be taken aback, and then asked, "Since the county lieutenant and the county lieutenant have both died, why didn't they report to Jizhou in time?" ”

Hua Hu sighed, did not answer immediately, but leaned sideways and made a gesture of please: "The envoy has been tired all the way, please go back to the county government to rest first." ”

Han Zhan, who was about to continue to ask, heard Huahu say this, and guessed in his heart that there must be something to say, and it was inconvenient to say it in public, and he needed to talk about it after returning to the county office.

Han Zhan did not ride a horse, but followed Huahu and his party and walked into the county seat of Sheguo. When he saw the city wall, his heart suddenly cooled by half, the wall was no more than a foot high, and the walls in many places had cracked, and he felt that he would collapse at any time. He couldn't imagine how long such a wall would last if a large army came to attack the city.

After entering the county office, Zhao Yun commanded people to carry luggage to the backyard, while Hua Hu accompanied Han Zhan to the main hall of the county government, and asked him to sit down behind the table in the middle of the table, and began to introduce the situation in Sheguo County.

After Huahu introduced the current situation of Sheguo County, Han Zhan couldn't help but feel worried, feeling that the land here was really barren and poor as Tian Feng said, and there were bandits and yellow turbans making trouble. The group of bandits that he exterminated yesterday was not ranked at all in the list of bandits recorded by the county government.

After introducing the situation in the county, Hua Hu also introduced: "The county Cheng and the county lieutenant died in battle, and the lower official has reported it to the Wei County Taishou, as for why he did not inform Jizhou of this matter, the lower official is not clear. ”

Thinking that before he took office, the county lieutenant and the county lieutenant had already died in battle, and it seemed that the bandits and yellow turbans in the surrounding mountains were not easy to deal with. But before taking the clean-up action, he must first figure out his own strength before he can make targeted deployments: "Hua Zhushu, I don't know how many soldiers and horses there are in the county?" ”

"About 400 county soldiers were killed or fled in battle last month." Hua Hu replied: "However, Xia Guan has recently re-recruited a few, and now there are 700 county soldiers in the county, plus the people who can be summoned at any time, there are about 2,000 people. ”

Two thousand soldiers say a lot, but it's not too much. It may be enough to defend the city. But if it is used to clean up bandits and yellow scarves, it will be overstretched. Han Zhan thought that there were vacancies in the positions of county magistrate and county lieutenant, and it would take at least a month or two to wait for Yuan Shao to arrange a new candidate for him, and he obviously couldn't wait that long, so he had to find another way.

Han Zhan raised his head and looked out of the hall, just in time to see Zhao Yun leading a few soldiers, carrying a few large wooden boxes and preparing to walk towards the backyard, and hurriedly shouted: "Zilong, come to me!" ”

When Zhao Yun entered the main hall, Han Zhan introduced to Huahu: "This is Zhao Yun, Zhao Zilong, the Marquis of Qu Jun, a person from Changshan Zhending, and the queen of Nanyue. The reason why he introduced this is because he understands in his heart that a good family background can effectively improve a person's status. Otherwise, why did Liu Bei say "Bei is the queen of King Jing of Zhongshan" every time he protects his family.

His introduction was really immediate, Hua Hu put away the contempt on his face, but saluted with crossed hands, and said respectfully: "It turned out that after the king of Nanyue, Hua Hu met Zhao Junhou. ”

Zhao Yun hurriedly returned the salute: "Yun has seen the flower master thin." ”

"Master Hua," Han Zhan looked at Hua Hu and asked, "I want Zilong to temporarily take the position of county lieutenant, I don't know what you think?" ”

Hearing that Han Zhan planned to appoint Zhao Yun as the county lieutenant of the country, Hua Hu instinctively wanted to dissuade him, saying that it was not in accordance with the rules to do so, and the county magistrate had no right to appoint the county magistrate and county lieutenant. But when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them back, because he considered that Sheguo County was nominally under the jurisdiction of Wei County and Jizhou, but here the Tiangao Emperor was far away, and the county order was a soil emperor, and some of the decrees of Wei County Taishou and Jizhou Mu would not work here at all. After making up his mind, he respectfully said to Han Zhan, the future "Emperor of the Soil": "Since the envoy thinks that Zhao Junhou is suitable, then the post of county lieutenant may as well have Zhao Junhou temporarily taken, and the lower officials have no objections. ”

The three of them were talking in the main hall when suddenly there was a noise outside, and then several people dressed in short brown broke in. Seeing that no one was around him and barging in, Han Zhan couldn't help frowning, and said in his heart what did the guards do, and actually let a few ordinary people come in with a swagger? Fortunately, it was the people, and if it was an assassin, he might have lost his life in the lobby.

Several ordinary people knelt in front of Huahu, shouting again and again to ask the master to call the shots. Hua Hu smiled awkwardly at Han Zhan, who was sitting behind the table, and shouted at the people: "Fellow villagers, this is the new state-related order, if you have any grievances, you can appeal to him." ”

As soon as Hua Hu's words fell, several people turned their targets to Han Zhan again, and they kept shouting, and their heads were big when they heard it. Han Zhan slapped the table, only to hear a loud "pop", and the people who were making noise were startled and immediately quieted down. However, Han Zhan's palms were also numb, and he thought to himself that he would make a shocking wood another day, which could come in handy when trying the case.

Han Zhan saw clearly the four men and one woman kneeling below, so he pointed at them with his hand and asked loudly, "Tell me, what is the matter that requires this envoy to be the master for you?" ”

"Your Excellency." A middle-aged man in his forties said: "My son-in-law doesn't know what evil he has fallen into, and he wants to divorce my daughter today for no reason." Please make the king's decision, and don't let him divorce his wife. ”

"Make your lord, make your lord." Another young man immediately answered: "The owner of the wine house where the villain works, the proprietor is happy today, and the villain wants to wear a robe to congratulate him." When I got home, I saw that the villain's best clothes were damaged by his own wife. Please call the shots of the adults, and the villains must divorce their wives today. ”

"Where's the clothes?" Han Zhan waited for the young man to finish speaking, and immediately asked.

"Here." The young man hurriedly stood up and was about to hand a robe in his hand to Han Zhan, but was stopped by Hua Hu. After Hua Hu glared at the other party, the young man obediently handed the robe to Hua Hu, who put the robe on the table.

Han Zhan inspected the robe and found that there was a thumb-sized hole in the sleeve. Instead of expressing his opinion at once, he asked the young woman kneeling below: "Tell me, girl, why did you break your husband's robe?" ”

"In reply to the envoy's words," the woman said weepingly, "When the slave family was washing clothes by the river today, they felt something the sleeves of their husband's robe, and thought it was a lump of dirt or something, and thought that they could break it with a few blows with a mallet, so they knocked it with extra force. Who knew that after knocking for a long time, not only did not break the lumps, but damaged the clothes. Only then did the slave family discover that there was a copper coin on the sleeve of the husband's robe. ”

"Why didn't you double-check your laundry before you did it?" Han Zhan continued to ask.

The woman wiped her tears and explained, "The husband has never had any money on him, so the slave family thinks it's a lump of dirt." ”

With the woman's narration, the case has been revealed, Han Zhan threw the current robe to the man, and said with stern luck: "Your lady is an unintentional mistake, there is no major fault, and the envoy will not allow you to divorce your wife." ”

As soon as the verdict came out, the woman and her relatives were busy kowtowing to Han Zhan, and said gratefully: "Thank you, thank you." Make the great kindness of the king, and the villain is unforgettable. ”

Han Zhan's verdict, the woman was satisfied, but the man objected: "Lord Jun, but the villain's clothes were damaged by the lady, what can I do?" ”

"Zilong," Han Zhan turned his head and instructed Zhao Yun, who was standing aside, "Go to the backyard and find a robe of the official to compensate him." ”

After hearing Zhao Yun's loud promise, Han Zhan stood up and waved his robe sleeves, and announced with great majesty: "Retire!" ”