CHAPTER XVIII

When a new official takes office, he naturally has to set up a banquet to entertain him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

This is a kind of etiquette, and it is also a kind of rules and conventions, Yan Shao does not intend to refuse, because it will feel out of place with people. Now is not the time for the heroes to rise together after the crusade against Dong Zhuo, and Yan Shao, the Taishou of Beihai, cannot be called a prince, so he needs to be low-key when acting.

In addition to the officials at all levels in Beihai, the banquet was attended by some local families. The new Taishou took office, and these families definitely wanted to come to visit, even if there were a few families with their own identities, they felt that they didn't have to please a Taishou, at least they were familiar with each other.

At the banquet, Yan Shao's youth surprised everyone very much, Guan Hai's bravery, and Sun Guan's toughness also made a deep impression.

"Lord Taishou is really young and promising, he has become a Taishou at such a young age, and I believe that the future will be limitless..."Sitting in a more important position, the head of a family saluted Yan Shao with a glass of wine and said with a smile.

"Where's the word..."Yan Shaoqian smiled gently. Shao is young and thin, and there are many things he doesn't understand, and he still needs a lot of help from you..."

Seeing Yan Shao so humble, the head of the family and the other person beside him glanced at each other and smiled with satisfaction.

Although Yan Shao is already the Taishou of Beihai County, many places still need to rely on these families, if there is no support from these families, I am afraid that it will be difficult to move an inch in Beihai. Just like the Eastern Wu in history, although the Eastern Wu with Jiangdong and Jingzhou is already very strong, it is extremely conservative in history, which is definitely not what the Eastern Wu wants, it is really because Sun Ce formed a blood feud with the Jiangdong family during his reign.

When Sun Ce was in power, they didn't dare to move, and when Sun Quan inherited Sun Ce's position, Jiangdong fell into civil strife, and those families dragged their feet, even with Sun Quan's eloquence they were powerless, so you can imagine how difficult these families were.

What's more, these families also have many connections in the local area and even in the court, and the majesty of the Han family is still there, and it may not be possible to get benefits from them.

Yan Shao's acquaintance naturally made these family heads satisfied.

It's just that when the atmosphere at the banquet was hot, one of the heads of the family looked at Yan Shao but said with a smile. "Speaking of which, Taishou seems to be a person from Beihai, and I don't want me to have such a young handsome man in Beihai, which really makes the old man sigh..."

The other people at the banquet also echoed one after another, looking at Yan Shao's eyes revealing affection. In this era, because of the inconvenient transportation, the so-called countryside is very important, if outsiders are easy to be ostracized, this time there will be so many representatives of the family, Yan Shao is a native of Beihai is also a very important factor.

However, looking at the old man below, Yan Shao laughed softly. "Uncle Shi is still so good at joking, hasn't he forgotten his little nephew..."

Hearing this, the old man couldn't help but be stunned, looking at Yan Shao, who was looking playful, he didn't know when he had seen him.

When the old man next to him heard this, he seemed to remember something, and hesitated for a moment before speaking. "Could it be that Lord Taishou is from the Yan family..."

"Uncle Shi finally remembered..."Yan Shao laughed, but there was some sarcasm in this laughter.

Beihai Yan Shao, Yan Shao is naturally a Beihai person.

And the Yan family is indeed a member of the family, even if it declines, this identity will not change.

Just looked at Yan Shao, who was chuckling lightly, but everyone present was looking at each other.

The Yan family in Beihai may have declined, but as one of the many families in Beihai, how could they forget? They have also heard about the declining heir of the Yan family who sold half of all the wealth in the family and ran to form a righteous army to crusade against the Yellow Turban. At the beginning, they were still laughing at the heir of the Yan family for being a loser, and he actually lost all the assets in the family so easily, and even made the children of the clan take it as a warning.

But who would have thought that just a year later, this loser in the Beihai population came back, not only did he come back, but he also returned to his hometown, and even came back as a taishou.

The once ruined son of a declining family, and now the Taishou of Beihai County, has changed so dramatically, it is no wonder that these people meet each other.

Some of them were even more embarrassed.

At the beginning, when the Yan family was not completely declining, the relationship with them was relatively deep, but now that the head of the family has returned, they have not recognized it at all. More importantly, the reason why the Yan family fell at the beginning was not only due to the thinning of the population and other reasons, but also because some of them fell into the ground.

But some of the others were noticeably more enthusiastic than them.

It should be said that the more inconvenient the transportation era, the more attention is paid to the local area, so outsiders are easily ostracized, and if they are fellow villagers, there is no such problem. Yan Shao was originally from a family and a native of Beihai, so it is natural that everyone here will regard him as his own.

After the banquet was over and Yan Shao officially took office, the people who came to visit became more frequent.

Or in this era, it is true that the royal family and the family share the world, but the royal family is always in front of the family, and the county guard is equivalent to the representative of the royal family, even if these families may not see the county guard in their eyes, they will never reject a good relationship.

Especially when Yan Shao has thousands of soldiers and horses, he didn't dare to fool Yan Shao, and he was soon understood by Yan Shao about the situation in Beihai―――――― in fact, there is nothing to fool, after all, Yan Shao himself is also very clear about the situation in Beihai, and what he doesn't know is only official.

"Are there only more than seven hundred soldiers in the city?" Putting down the book in his hand, Yan Shao frowned slightly.

He had already consulted the book just now, and now the defenders in Beihai were only more than 700 people, that is, the ones that Yan Shao had seen on the city wall before, if it weren't for this, the whole city would not have panicked for Yan Shao's thousands of people.

After all, Yan Shao's strength of the Yellow Turbans is still very clear, don't look at the large number of Yellow Turbans, in fact, many battles require three or four times the number of troops to fight with the official army. If it weren't for the fact that there were too few soldiers in Beihai, how could it be uneasy for the three or four thousand Yellow Turban Army.

"But that's the case..."Clasped his hands into fists, Sun Guan said helplessly. Beihai County originally had more than 3,000 military horses, but the Yellow Turbans had to disperse most of them to various counties, so there were only more than 1,000 military horses left in the city.

It's no wonder that Sun Guan will be helpless, after all, there is a limit to the strength of each county, and Beihai County is of course no exception, originally more than 3,000 troops to guard a county is definitely enough. The problem is that now that the Yellow Turbans are in turmoil, the limited forces must be dispersed to various counties, so the troops that were originally sufficient suddenly become pitiful.

If it weren't for this, the officials in this city would not have been so ecstatic after hearing that Yan Shao's troops had more than 1,000 men.

"Well..."

Yan Shao is also helpless, fortunately, there are still more than 700 troops in this city, counting Yan Shao's more than 1,000 private troops, if you select three or four hundred from the Yellow Turban prisoners escorted over this time, I believe that you can also form an army of 2,000 people, if you count the defenders scattered in various places, four or five thousand people can still be made up.

At least before Dong Zhuo's rebellion, during the period after the division of the heroes, these soldiers and horses were also very impressive.