Han Fu looked at the eldest son sitting on the couch and said with concern: "Zhan'er, you have been recuperating at home these two days. After your injury is healed, I plan to send you to do an important thing for my father."

Although Han Zhan had guessed in his heart that the other party wanted to be an envoy to invite Yuan Shao to Jizhou, he still asked knowingly: "Father, I don't know what can I do to let my child serve you?"

"You and your uncle Xun Youruo, with my seal and ribbon, went to Yuan Benchu ​​Camp together and invited him to Jizhou."

Han Zhan looked at the middle-aged man in front of him who was wearing a black official uniform and a tall crown, and looked a bit rich. A question arose in his heart: Tao Qiansan asked Xuzhou to leave a story for Liu Bei for eternal reasons; while the person in front of him gave Jizhou to Yuan Shao, he left the impression of stupidity and cowardice in later generations. How could there be such a big gap if he gave up the territory under his jurisdiction to others?

Thinking of this, he asked, "Father, Jizhou is your foundation, why should you let others go?"

"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 set up a camp two hundred miles away from Jizhou." Han Fu slowly introduced the current situation facing Jizhou to Han Zhan: "If Yuan Benchu ​​was not invited to Jizhou, as long as the battle ends begin, Gongsun Zan attacked from the north and Yuan Shao attacked the west, how long do you think a lonely city in Jizhou can last under the attack of two groups?"

After hearing this, Han Zhan suddenly realized that his understanding of Han Fu might be a bit too one-sided. Han Fu asked Jizhou not for his original intention, but for him to be attacked from both sides. With his strength, he was really unable to meet the two invading armies at the same time. Therefore, he could only bite the bullet and invite Yuan Shao into Jizhou to jointly resist Gongsun Zan from the north so that he could survive in a desperate situation.

Han Zhan, who has watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", knew in his heart that once Yuan Shao entered Jizhou, he would lead a wolf into the house, and he would eat Han Fu, who was mediocre, so he would not even leave his bones. Although he knew that no matter what he said, Han Fu, who was determined to act alone, would not listen, but Han Zhan still wanted to try it.

"As the saying goes, there is no day, and there is no two masters in the people. My father is now the governor of Jizhou. If Yuan Benchu ​​is invited, there will be two governors of Jizhou." Han Zhan asked tactfully: "Who will decide Jizhou by then?"

Han Zhan's words surprised Han Fu. He hesitated for a long time before saying, "I invited Yuan Benchu ​​to Jizhou to resist Gongsun Zan's attack. As long as Gongsun Zan retreated, I would send more money and food to Benchu ​​and let him lead his troops back to Bohai."

After Han Zhan reorganized the vocabulary in his mind, he then asked: "If Gongsun Zan withdrew his troops, but Yuan Benchu ​​still stayed in Jizhou and refused to leave for a long time, what should we do?"

Han Fu, who was fooled by Xun Chen and Guo Tu, said with striking concerns about Han Zhan: "Don't think I invited Yuan Benchu ​​to Jizhou to compete with Gongsun Zan. But I think Benchu ​​should understand in his heart that his troops entering Jizhou would be equivalent to getting a place to rest, and I was still providing him with money and food. After Gongsun Zan withdrew from the army, even if he did not leave Jizhou for a short time, I believe he would be grateful to me and treat me well."

Seeing Han Fu doing so unyieldingly, Han Zhan was speechless. He knew that it would be useless to persuade him, so he obediently closed his mouth and stopped persuading him in vain.

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

Han Zhan hurriedly bowed on the couch and bowed: "Father, go!"

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That night, Han Zhan suffered from insomnia. He felt that he could not sit still and wait for death and had to find a way to save himself. However, he was a newcomer and was not familiar with the place. If he did not seize the time to make friends with several powerful people, if something happened, he would not even be able to turn the world around, not to mention that he was unable to turn the world around, even his life would be difficult to protect.

After finally waiting for dawn, he saw Lihua coming in with a copper basin and preparing to serve him to wash his face and change his clothes. He quickly said first: "Lihua, I plan to go out for a walk. Can you find someone to accompany me?" The reason he asked this was because the maid was okay in the mansion to serve him, and there was absolutely no reason to follow him out for public appearance.

"Young Master is going out?" Lihua asked in surprise.

"Yes, I'm so stuffy when I lay on the couch." Han Zhan and Lihua had not known each other for a long time, and they couldn't tell her some truth, so they had to find a reason to make excuses: "I want to go out and walk around."

"Patch patch," Lihua turned her head and shouted out of the door: "Come in!"

With Li Hua's shouting, a male servant in green came in from outside. Although he looked much older than Li Hua, he still asked Li Hua respectfully: "Sister Li Hua, I wonder what instructions do you have?"

"Young Master wants to go out for a walk, so you can go with him." Lihua said: "Remember, you must not make any mistakes, otherwise you will be careful of the head on your neck. Do you understand?"

"I understand." The male servant agreed with his eyebrows down, then faced Han Zhan and asked, "Do you need to prepare horses for the young master?"

"Need not!"

"Need not!"

Han Zhan and Li Hua answered in unison.

Li Hua smiled sweetly at Han Zhan, and then said to the servant: "Today you are just accompanying the young master to relax, so there is no need to prepare horses."

In order not to disturb more people, Han Zhan and his servant left the governor's mansion from the back door. After the two came to the street, the servant asked Han Zhan: "Young Master, don't know where you plan to go?"

The people Han Zhan is eager to meet now are the chief clerk Geng Wu and the deceased Min Chun. In his memory, these two people firmly opposed Yuan Shao's move into Jizhou. Even when the overall situation was settled, they took the risk of assassinating Yuan Shao, but were killed by Yan Liang and Wen Chou. Therefore, when he heard the question of the servant, he casually replied: "Let's go to Geng Changshi's mansion."

After he finished speaking, he raised his legs and left. After walking a few steps, the servant did not follow him. He quickly stopped and looked back. Seeing that the servant was still standing there without moving. He frowned and said with some displeasure: "Why are you still standing there without moving?"

"Young Master," the servant stood there, pointed his fingers in the opposite direction, and said tremblingly: "But Geng Changshi's mansion is on that side."

After hearing what the servant said, Han Fu realized that he had gone in the wrong direction. But he was embarrassed to admit that he was wrong on the street, so he said with a shameless face: "I know that Geng Changshi's mansion is there, and going here is just to test whether you know where we are going."

When he walked 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 selling along the street. There were very few pedestrians, and they seemed deserted everywhere.

Seeing this scene, Han Zhan couldn't help but ask his servant curiously: "What's going on? Why can't there be two people on the street?"

The servant was stunned. He did not expect that the young master would ask this question that everyone knew the answer. However, he thought it was the young master who was examining him. After a moment, he replied: "Young Master, because Gongsun Zan in the north was about to lead his troops south. The people in the city were afraid that they usually had nothing to do and did not dare to go out easily. Some wealthy families even blocked the door with water tanks filled with stones, so as not to rob the family of the chaotic soldiers after the city was broken."

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

"Report to the young master, the little one is called a patch." The servant heard the young master ask about his name for the first time and quickly answered respectfully. In order to deepen the other party's impression, he pointed to a patch on his clothes and said, "It's this patch. It is said that when my mother gave birth to me, she was repairing clothes for others, so she gave me such a name."

"Patch, patch." Han Zhan whispered the name twice, and was about to ask the servant why he did not change it to Han or something like this after entering the Han family, but he was still using such an ugly name.

At this moment, I suddenly heard the patch saying loudly: "Young Master, we have arrived. The big house in front is Geng Changshi's mansion."

In front of the door of Gengwu's mansion, the door was closed. Han Zhan waved his head to the patch and told him: "Patch, go up and knock on the door!"

The patch agreed and ran to the door quickly, slapped the door hard, and shouted loudly: "Hey, is there anyone inside? Open the door, open it quickly!..."

After knocking for a while, a low voice came from the door: "Who knocks on the door?"

Hearing the sound from inside, the patch stopped knocking on the door and said through the door: "Go and report to Lord Changshi, just say that the young master is here to visit!"

As soon as he finished speaking, two closed doors opened a crack. An old man poked his head out of the inside and looked out. Han Zhan hurried forward and bowed politely, "Brother-in-law, please inform your parents, Lord Shi, that Han Zhan, the son of the Han family, had important things to visit."
Chapter completed!