It was not Zhang Zhi's intentional arrangement that the day when the Han army distributed Alpine milk hard candy to the Han army soldiers was exactly the same day when the Han army announced that Zhang Zhi had surrendered to the governor. As a result, he heard this important news, and ate addictive candies that were eight times more addictive. No Han army soldier cheered long live, smiled happily, and supported Zhang Zhi from the bottom of his heart to surrender. He was also glad that he followed the right person and joined the Han army. He ate better than the emperor.

It's really better than the emperor. Whether it's Liu Chan who has surrendered to Cao Wei, Cao Huan in Luoyang City, or Sun Hao from Dongwu, at most, he can drink some honey water with a odor. Who can eat Alpine milk candy that is sweeter than honey? And instant noodles with a lot of MSG?

The people of Qilan also benefited from it. Seeing the intoxicated expressions of the Han army soldiers after eating the milk candy, Zhang Zhi made a temporary decision and arranged for the officers of Qilan County Temple to carry a lot of candy on the street with a truck loaded with a lot of candy. In the name of celebrating Qilan Guangfu and his own surrender to the governor, he generously distributed it to the people in Qilan City to taste it. He immediately bought the hearts of countless people, which made countless Qilan people cheer and quickly recognized Zhang Zhi, the new ruler, and the people's hearts were very calm.

With the support of the people, many things naturally became much easier to handle. First of all, the industrial and commercial order in Qilan City was quickly restored, shops and workshops reopened, trade production resumed, and gradually began to provide various military supplies to the Han army. At the same time, with the encouragement of the Han army's instant noodles and candy, many people in the city also actively participated in helping the Han army prepare for war, dredging moats, producing and hoarding various city-defense materials, and rushing to build various city-defense weapons, reducing the burden of preparation for the Han army.

The work of recruiting new recruits and recruiting prisoners was also underway. Under the dual temptation of instant noodles and candy, many county soldiers and prisoners who originally planned to return to their hometown changed their minds and chose to stay in Qilan to join the Han army. In the end, more than 400 of the nearly 600 county soldiers and prisoners chose to accept the Han army's inclusion, which increased Zhang Zhizai's available troops to more than 1,800 people at once.

The progress of recruiting new recruits is also very gratifying. It is also because of the dual temptation of instant noodles and candy, coupled with the policy of tax exemption for one person to serve in the army, and the number of people who joined the army exceeded 100 on the same day.

There are joy and sorrow. Just like in Wulian, the powerful landlords in the local area still gave Zhang Zhi a headache. After the initial stability, Zhang Zhi arranged for the officers from the Prefect of Jingke to come forward and brought letters and invitations to the townships of Qilan, and invited several well-known landlords in Qilan to enter the city on August 30th to attend a banquet and meet with him to discuss major events together.

It was really not the Hongmen Banquet. After learning from the lessons learned from Wulian, Zhang Zhi planned to use various preferential policies to win over and bribe these landlords and powerful people, persuade them to cooperate with the Han army to count the real population of Qilan, so that they could obtain more antiques for sale, and also allow the Han army to further explore Qilan's manpower and accelerate the expansion of the army's strength. At the same time, persuade these landlords and powerful people who have a large amount of food to transfer food in advance, making it difficult for the rebels sent by Huo Yi to replenish the supplies on the spot, and there was absolutely no intention to force them to obey with force.

Unfortunately, Zhang Zhi soon found that he had a hot face on his cold butt. After the invitation was sent, the prefect who went to send the invitation actually returned one after another, saying that the powerful Qilan landlords, led by Lan, Pan and Dong families, basically found various excuses to refuse Zhang Zhi's invitation. Only two relatively weak young heroes accepted Zhang Zhi's invitation and agreed to go to the city to meet Zhang Zhi on August 30th.

After getting these answers, Zhang Zhi's face was of course too ugly. Zhao Quan, who had a fierce temper, was even more furious and roared: "Ming Court, oh no, the governor, send troops to capture them, capture all the ignorant tyrants, and force them to meet you!"

Fortunately, Zhang Zhi was calm and immediately shook his head and said, "You can't be impulsive. Send people to arrest them. It is very likely that they will trigger forceful resistance. Even if they are arrested, they will not sincerely support us in reviving the country. Moreover, we have confirmed that the original Jing Kehu Cao Luoyin sent a fast horse to inquire with Huo Yi on August 20th. If nothing unexpected happens, the army sent by Huo Yi may arrive at the city of Qilan in mid-September. Our time for expanding the army is so hasty. If these powerful landlords are forced to Huo Yi's side, our situation will be even more critical."

"But if these fence-grabbings are not solved, they will definitely turn to the South Central Army after the Nanzhong army arrives." Zhao Quan said dissatisfiedly: "It would be better to seize the time and quickly solve these fence-grabbings, acquire their field slaves, confiscate their food and weapons, so that they can't help the Nanzhong army even if they want to help!"

Not to mention, after listening to Zhao Quan's suggestion, Zhang Zhi, who actually hated the powerful family deeply in his heart, was really moved. Xue Rangze stood up in time to dissuade him and said, "General Zhao, don't act irritably. When you and the governor used this method to deal with the three major surnames of Wulian when Wulian were used to rebel first. You are famous for sending troops to attack the army. The situation on Lan's side is different. The powerful people of Lan just refused to cooperate with us, but did not rebel openly. We spoke directly with force, and people will definitely not accept it, and they will only force more people from Qilan to the South Central Army."

"Also, doing so is even more unfavorable for our long-term plan." Xue Rang added: "Since ancient times, the power at the county level has not been lowered from the county, and the power at the village level has actually been controlled by the powerful. If we talk to the powerful and forceful surnames from all over the South Central China will definitely stand firmly on the side of the Wei people and hostile to us. If we want to expand our territory and restore the counties and counties, it will inevitably be as difficult as we ascend to heaven. We are destined to encounter tenacious resistance from the powerful and powerful surnames every time we go to, and the common people they actually control will definitely not support us easily."

Zhang Zhi nodded helplessly and said, "What Master Xue said is very true. This is indeed the truth. Now we speak with the powerful surname Qilan Hao, and even if it is not difficult to deal with them, we will only force the powerful surnames of Quannanzhong and even the entire Yizhou to the Wei people."

"What should I do?" Zhao Quan asked a little disgusted, "We can't watch these powerful surnames and our vain and delay time, and then wait until the South Central Army arrives, and immediately stand on the South Central Army to be enemies with us, right?"

Zhang Zhi, who had no similar experience, frowned and said without saying a word. Chen Can, who was sitting on the other side, spoke carefully and said, "Governor, we should just take it slowly when dealing with these powerful surnames. Aren't there two powerful surnames accepted our invitation? In this case, we might as well treat them well and give them the benefits we can show as much as possible, so that other powerful surnames can see the benefits of supporting us, and then gradually win over them."

"The solution is a solution, but it is too slow to take effect." Zhang Zhi frowned and said, "The most important thing for us is to persuade these powerful surnames not to support the Nanzhong army, and not to send people and food to help the Nanzhong army attack the city when the Nanzhong army arrives. If we cannot do this, no matter how much concessions we make to these powerful surnames will be useless, and they will only be cheap."

"Governor, I'm sorry, I'm afraid that this is absolutely impossible." Chen Can said with a wry smile: "We are so weak now, and those powerful surnames are not fools. We will not understand how huge the strength gap between us and the Nanzhong army is. No matter what we say or do, when the Nanzhong army is approaching Qilan City, they will definitely stand firmly on the Nanzhong army for their own interests and sharing of benefits."

Of course, Zhang Zhi also understood this truth, but Zhang Zhi still refused to give up and racked his brains to say, "Premier Chen, Master Xue, in your opinion, under what circumstances will those powerful surnames choose to support us, or temporarily choose to be neutral. Even if the Nanzhong army arrives, they will not be willing to invest a lot of money to support the Nanzhong army in attacking us?"

"Unless those powerful surnames think we will win, or feel that we have the hope of defending Qilan to repel the Nanzhong army, and are afraid that we will settle the score with them in the autumn, they will not dare to pay a lot of capital to help the Nanzhong army." Xue Rang immediately replied: "Otherwise, no matter what the situation is, those powerful surnames will definitely turn to the Nanzhong army."

"Let those powerful surnames think that we will win, or do they think we have the hope of defending Jilan and repelling the Nanzhong army?"

Following this idea of ​​solving the problem, Zhang Zhi, who had no decent counselors to help, tried hard to figure out how to achieve this goal. Then, when he accidentally saw the map of Jingke hanging on the wall, Zhang Zhi suddenly lit up and rushed to the map to take a closer look. He also quickly calculated the time in his heart, and then gradually showed joy and said happily: "There is a way, let the Eastern Wu send reinforcements to help us!"

"Let the Eastern Wu send reinforcements to help us?" The Han military and civil and military officials present were shocked.

"Yes!" Zhang Zhi nodded greatly and said happily: "Think about it, if you were the powerful surname of Qilan, if you knew that the Eastern Wu would send reinforcements from Jingzhou to help us and help us deal with the Nanzhong army, then do you dare to bet all the bets on the Nanzhong army? Do you dare to bet on your property and land to fully support the Nanzhong army in the absence of the victory or defeat?"

"The truth is this truth." Xue Rang said with a wry smile: "But the governor, the distance is too far, we are only asking for help from the Eastern Wu now, and there is no time at all?"

"The officials opposed asking for help from the Eastern Wu!" Chen Can's face turned a little dark and said angrily: "Compared to the Wei people, the officials hated Wu Gou more! If Wu Gou hadn't been treacherous, he attacked Jingzhou after General Guan Yu flooded the seven armies, killing General Guan Yu and destroying our Han Dynasty's strategic plan for the northern expedition of the Central Plains, why would Prime Minister Zhuge die of exhaustion in Wuzhangyuan? Why would the Prime Minister and General's more than a dozen Northern Expeditions by the Prime Minister and General be futile every time?"

"The last general also opposes asking for help from Eastern Wu!" Wu Ma also cursed himself angrily and said, "Wu Gou Langzi's ambitions. After the Wei people took Chengdu, he took advantage of the situation and robbed our great man Yong'an City for half a year. If we ask for help from them, it will definitely only lead the wolf into the house and besieged by them!"

"Don't worry." Zhang Zhi smiled and said, "Premier Chen, General Wu, you can rest assured. My hatred of Wu Gou will only be above you, not below you. If Wu Gou really takes the opportunity to invade Jing Ke, even if he fights to the last soldier, I will definitely fight Wu Gou bloodily to the end."

"Governor, then why do you still ask for help from Eastern Wu?" Chen Can and Wu Ma asked in confusion.

"When did I say I wanted to ask for help from Eastern Wu?" Zhang Zhi asked with a smile, and then said, "Didn't you hear it clearly just now? What I said is to ask Eastern Wu to send reinforcements to help us."

"Governor, what do you mean? Why can't the rank of the officials understand?" Chen Can was completely confused and said in confusion: "If you don't ask for help from Eastern Wu, how can Eastern Wu send reinforcements to help us?"

Zhang Zhi smiled and then he said his bad idea of ​​being so immoral that he was smoking. As a result, Chen Can, Wu Ma, Zhao Quan and others laughed and praised the clever plan. Xue Rang bowed to Zhang Zhi repeatedly and said sincerely: "Governor Gao Ming, he can be comparable to Prime Minister Zhuge of our great Han Dynasty. Once this plan is made, it is expected that those powerful surnames will definitely look forward to it and dare not be enemies with us with all their might."

"Master Xue is too much, and he is just a helpless plan. If Huo Yi sends enough troops to attack us, this method will still be futile."

Zhang Zhi smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, since everyone has no objection, then we will do this. I will send an envoy to meet those powerful surnames and ask them to send trustworthy people as representatives to come to Qilan City on the first day of September. When the two young men arrive tomorrow, they will be treated with delicious food and drinks, and discuss matters together the day after tomorrow."

Fortunately, this time went smoothly, because Zhang Zhi only invited the powerful landlords of Qilan to send trusted representatives to the city of Qilan to discuss matters and attend banquets, and did not let the powerful landlords themselves take risks into the city. Therefore, Qilan, headed by the tribe leader of Lan Pan and Dong, finally did not refute Zhang Zhi's face this time, and all agreed to send people to the city on their behalf to pay homage to Zhang Zhi.

At the same time, it was the evening of August 30 that Zhang Zhi confirmed these situations. Rest assured, it was the night that Zhang Zhi of course had a good rest for the night. Then on the morning of the next day, Zhang Zhi, who liked to sleep with his bare butt, got up and didn't dress or wash. He sat cross-legged on the couch and shouted in his heart: "System, come out, come out!"

"Host, did you do it on purpose?" The voice of the cheating system rang out directly in Zhang Zhi's mind, and he said in shame: "You deliberately summoned this system without wearing clothes. Do you hope this system will curse you to die more miserably?"

"Even if I wear clothes, you never say a nice word in your mouth!" Zhang Zhi answered even more angrily, and then roared: "Stop talking, it's the fourth day, I'm going to draw new candy assistance!"

"I strongly hope that the host will draw Zhongshanzhai fruit candy."

The pit system answered quickly and opened the extraction system even faster. Zhang Zhi, who had been desperate for candy, was too lazy to spend time to pray this time, and directly hit the green button floating in front of him with one punch. However, what surprised Zhang Zhi was that the candy pattern on the translucent screen jumped quickly and it turned into a pattern of the big white rabbit milk candy.

"Big White Rabbit Milk Candy?" The cheating system made an opinion first and sneered: "Congratulations to the host, I won the free junk food assistance for the Big White Rabbit Milk Candy. But host, what is the use of this sticky milk candy to you? Otherwise, this system will be very merciful and replace some starry sky lollipops for you to please girls of this era. Host, haven't you been secretly YY Chen Can's beautiful daughter these days?"

"I'm stupid and I'll exchange it with you!" Zhang Zhi sneered and said, "Seven big white rabbits are equivalent to a cup of milk. Milk is not only animal protein, but also has a very high calcium content. Instant noodles are also seriously lacking trace minerals. Let my soldiers eat big white rabbits every day, which can replenish the calcium they lack. How important is calcium to the body, do you think I don't know?"

"Also, the big white rabbit should be able to replace milk powder to improve the survival rate of the baby I have treated. How could I bear to exchange such a good thing for the starry sky lollipop that is just good-looking?"
Chapter completed!